DataViz - Conceptual Research

ok, so far:

- i've been digging into Lindenmeyer's "Algorithmic Beauty of Plants". The math's way over my head, but it looks like i'll be able to circle back and dig into it if decide L-systems are the way to go. i like the naturalistic tendencies of L-systems, it seems like they're gonna be intuitive to read as graphics, but i'm a little worried that they're more suited towards taking small bits of data and exploding them, rather than taking larger data sets. maybe i should be thinking in terms of forests rather than individual plants? let each data point seed an L-Systems tree?

- poked around looking at some max objects that might be useful. i think this may be a distraction; first i need to dig deeper into jit.linden

made a to-do list

- skim Algo Beauty of Plants, see if there's anything useful in there
- play w jit.linden
- check out nowack's wiki, see if there's anything useful there
- sit down w a sketchbook and try to frame the contours of what i'm trying to do

LISTENING TO: modern lovers, orange juice, patti smith