LATLONG — Part of the public art project ‘Virtual Depictions: San Francisco’

In this real-time visualizations of twitter activity in San Francisco, thousands of daily tweets are transformed into millions of particles that illuminate the cityscape, floating up from where they were written and rising into the sky.

The visualization was created by mapping every geotagged tweet to a point-cloud model of the iconic seaside city of San Francisco. In the video, this mapping generates a heatmap of Twitter-messages that colorize and displace the point-cloud. Every tweet emits a swarm of particles that spawn on the point-cloud itself and symbolize the words and letters of the tweet.

Credits

Commissioned by
Kilroy Realty Corporation John B. Kilroy, Jr.

In cooperation with
The City of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee John Rahaim, Director of Planning

Project Partners
Arup Sensory Interactive Sansi North America Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill LLP Webcor Builders WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

Art Consultant
DPA Fine Art Consulting Deanna Postil Krawczyk – Michelle Isenberg

Design+Code
schnellebuntebilder — Johannes Timpernagel
Quadrature — Juliane Götz, Sebastian Neitsch

Music
kling klang klong

vvvv.org
DX11.Pointcloud
Evvvvil Tweet Engine