I think I’ve finally come up with an idea that I genuinely want to pursue! I’ve been collecting and noting down ideas, hoping that one day, something cool and feasible would emerge. Now, I believe that moment has arrived. While I haven’t fully fleshed out the concept, here’s a rough summary of what I want to achieve.
I aim to bring digital sustainability closer to people and raise awareness about it. To do this, I want to create an interactive experience that utilizes data visualization. Users will have the opportunity to learn more about digital sustainability and reflect on their own digital activities. The core of this concept is the interactive data visualization, which allows users to see their own digital activities visually. While I want the visualizations to be abstract and visually intriguing, they should also be educational and easy to understand. Currently, my first prototype is visually interesting but not very educational.
Since I personally find visualizations and generative art with particles extremely cool, I decided to create my first data visualization using a particle system. I leveraged my learnings from the „Coding with AI“ workshop and, with the help of ChatGPT, wrote some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. The code creates a sphere of particles (which is supposed to resemble a galaxy) that users can customize. There are three input fields where users can enter numbers that affect the number of differently colored particles. Each color represents a different aspect. For example, emissions from online gaming (purple), video streaming (pink), and internet surfing (white). The higher the number, the greater the environmental impact, but I haven’t yet found a correct mathematical formula for this. The prototype is three dimensional
I’m quite satisfied with this first prototype and I think I’ll continue in this direction. You can test the prototype at this link: Particle-World. Cheers!
