cesar-urteaga/1803_processing_meteorites

Process and visualize a meteorite database using Processing

Visualization of meteorites

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Organization of the project's files
• Workflow

Overview

This is my project for the Designing Data Visualizations: Getting Started with Processing course offered by the Skillshare platform and taught by Nicholas Felton.

The aim of this task is to process and visualize a meteorite database through Processing. The project's output is a Processing's image where the final details were carried out using Adobe Illustrator.

The figure below was the final output:

Organization of the project's files

The above undertaking has the following structure:

• _CODES: Contains the Processing code that makes the meteorite visualization.
• _DATA: Has the raw data as well as the world map SVG file in which the data was rendered. N.B.: The data was provided in the course.
• _GRAPHS: Comprehends the Processing's output image and the final files that were created on Illustrator.
• _RESOURCES: Include some relevant files that were used during the construction of the project. In particular, it contains the color wheel that I used as guideline to choose the colors.

Workflow

In order to create the final image, the following steps were performed:

1. First of all, I had gone over the data before I carried out any kind of processing. I noticed that it was already sorted by weight; therefore, I did not worry about order the information provided.
2. Afterward, I set the layout up of the Processing's program (i.e., libraries, global variables, constants, setup, and drawing sections).
3. Soon thereafter, I coded and executed the visualization program; its output was a pdf file.
4. Finally, using Illustrator, I changed manifold traits of the pdf file (e.g., background, map color, label arrangement, etc.). I saved the Illustrator project and the final pdf file.