After doing the Article Garden I thought it would be fun to try and learn how to work with 3D. Below is my first attempt.
What am I looking at?
It works pretty much like the Article Garden does. Every time a TimesPeople users performs an action on an article a building is constructed. For each action an article has after that it grows taller. There is no decay so things can get pretty wonky.
I made another video here that display the ten most popular articles.
See It Live
If you want to watch it in real time, I exported from Processing to three different dimensions. Just click one of the links below. They’re a little different from the video. There are a bunch of keys (listed on clicked through page) that allow you to dynamically change settings in the script.
Mad Props
I needed a background for my growing city and found the gravity well affect on OpenProcessing. It was written by Claudio Gonzales. I liked the affect so I dropped it into my script. Here’s more info: http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=2357
