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i have no idea what this console error means, but damn does it cut right into my existential anxieties
Leslie Shapiro
@lmshap
Graphics, data viz, words and code @washingtonpost // Trying to be a little bit better every day
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As usual @JStein_WaPo says it best 🙂
one of the most fun projects i've ever worked on :-)
i built an interactive beat maker, using the extremely cool and underrated ✨Web Audio API✨, to help you *hear* the story of how reggaeton beats evolved (& make your own beats!).
wapo.st/480gwGj
i built an interactive beat maker, using the extremely cool and underrated ✨Web Audio API✨, to help you *hear* the story of how reggaeton beats evolved (& make your own beats!).
wapo.st/480gwGj
www.washingtonpost.com Make your own reggaeton beat Make and share your own beat to learn reggaeton history, from Jamaican dancehall in the early ’90s to dembow, the rhythm that propels so many pop songs around the world. @daddy_yankee @LuisFonsi @wisin Make your own reggaeton beat using our virtual drum machine — part of an audible tour through the genre’s evolution, from Jamaican dancehall to dembow: wapo.st/480gwGjView quoted post on X
got to spend a week answering a question i've long had. the answer, as you might expect, is much deeper than i imagined: washingtonpost.com/science/intera…
(also i got to draw lots and lots of leaves!! 🍃🍂)
(also i got to draw lots and lots of leaves!! 🍃🍂)
www.washingtonpost.com Why do trees have differently shaped leaves? Leaf shapes vary from place to place. But did you know that the place helped create the shapes? Some tech notes for the nerds: I built the viz here in plain old canvas/javascript (in React), with a RAF loop for animations: washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
I tried *a lot* of implementations (SVG, P5, animation libs). This was by far the most performant and easiest to manage!
I tried *a lot* of implementations (SVG, P5, animation libs). This was by far the most performant and easiest to manage!
www.washingtonpost.com Compare your life expectancy with others around the world Plug your age and gender into our life expectancy calculator to compare yourself with peers overseas. Find out why so many do better than in the United States. When generative art makes the A1 :)
Sunday's front page was our story on the U.S. life expectancy gap, feat. a print version of the generative rings I built for online.
You can see your own personalized version of this viz in our online story: washingtonpost.com/world/interact…View quoted post on X