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COLOURS OF NEWCASTLE

Northumbria University

Role:
Data Visualisation
Web Design & Development

Description:

Colours of Newcastle is a data visualisation project that takes the concept of colour in space further. The concept was to recreate a digitised journey through Newcastle using colours to illustrate our experience through an area of the city, and develop a website that was equivalent in length and accurately represented the city we saw in an abstract visualisation.

We developed a horizontal scrolling website approximately a mile-long (the exact walking distance in pixels) as a digital replica of our journey, and the scroll speed of the website is also calculated to match walking speed for an accurate recreation of the walk. The team included myself, Jack Merrell, Steve Paul Myers, and Joseph Coulam.

EXPERIENCING NEWCASTLE

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The idea of the project was to originally experience Newcastle in our own way, make observations and find something about the city that we could relay back in an interesting way. We decided to walk around our designated portion of the city in a route which was approximately a mile long, in an effort to understand what occupied our space and find interesting things.

AVERAGE COLOURS OF A CITY

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We became interested in digitising the information we had captured through film and sound, converting our captured colours into hex values for manipulation. These colours were collected by multiple cameras out on location and filming the area, which was then imported into Processing to develop the average colours in a tiled output to create a simplified view of the journey.

NAVIGATION & TRAVEL

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Once the colours were recorded they needed to be put into context, and a digital journey of our walk was created in the form of a website that was of an equivalent length. Print artefacts were also created as a static capture of the most memorable moments of experience during the project. This will be published in a book alongside other similar data visualisation projects, further updates will become available soon.

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COLOURS OF NEWCASTLE

Northumbria University

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Description:

EXPERIENCING NEWCASTLE

AVERAGE COLOURS OF A CITY

NAVIGATION & TRAVEL