Major Studio 1

For major studio 1 at Parsons School of Design.

Process

Idea 1

This is a visualization of how seasons are conveyed through paintings in Met collections.

• green represents spring
• red represents summer
• brown represents autumn
• blue represents winter

Each dot represents one artwork. It is also able to filter based on seasons and genders.
When hovering on each dot details about this artwork will show in a pop up window.

Idea 2

This visualization presents Top 5 popular animals in paintints in different time periods.
Users can select different time period to see what are 5 kinds of animals that existed the most in the selected period and the number of artwork for each category.
The size of oval represents the number of the artworks fall into this category. The larger the oval is, the larger number it includes.

• For the category with more than 50 artworks, it will filter based on continents where the work was originated.

Idea 3

This visualization represents different materials made of beachwear in the Met collection. Each cluster represents one material, including cotton, plastic, nylon, wool, etc.
The nodes in each cluster represents artworks in this category.
When hovering on each subnode, details about this artwork will show in a pop up window.