Title
Visualizing federal spending
Abstract
In this project we explore an aesthetics-oriented approach to visualizing federal spending in the United States as 3D compositions in a photorealistic style. Using procedural modeling with Python programming and Maya API, an organic flow of intermingled geometrical units is formed to represent the profile of federal spending for each state, loosely resembling the idea of money flow. The total amount of spending is scaled to a per capita basis to make different states comparable, while the overall surface area or volume occupied by each type of geometrical pattern represents its associated spending data.
Department(s)
Art and Design
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/2503649.2503671
Publication Date
8-21-2013
Recommended Citation
Xu, Rebecca Ruige, and Sean Hongsheng Zhai. "Visualizing federal spending." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Gallery, pp. 414-415. 2013.
Journal Title
ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Gallery, SIGGRAPH 2013
