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Creative Coding, 2024

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This was my first attempt at a data portrait. I tracked how often my two cats (1) came to me for pets and (2) came just to hang out with me: in my room, on my bed, or just in my general vicinity. I did the pets break down per day (this correlates to how open the eyes are; the more closed the eyes, the more they came for pets). I combined the hanging out data as a total of all days combined (on the first mousePressed, the eyes change size depending on this number). Here's the data:

Cypress coming for pets (per day): 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2
Cypress coming to hang (total): 10

Juniper coming for pets (per day): 2, 1, 4, 3, 3, 1, 3
Juniper coming to hang (total): 3

For my design process, I almost wanted to make the data invisible; I didn't want my sketch to be obviously based on data, but rather a visual comparative of the behaviors of my two cats.