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How People Use Twitter: an Homage to Pollock

Here is the algorithm for creating the artwork:

 

0 I came across the funny post of Leonardo Monasterio: If Jackson Pollock were an economist lmonasterio-en.blogspot.com/2007/07/if-jackson-pollock-we...

 

1 I've found a proper diagram on How People Use Twitter at blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4584/New-Data-on-Top...

And I used the percentage given in the diagram.

 

2 I asked my friend to find the radius of each circle using percentage as an area, PHP script and a formule S=pi r^2.

 

3 Given values were used for visualization.

 

4 I manipulated some of shapes in order to make it look like Pollock's painting(if you can help me with the painting ID, I will really appreciate it.)

 

5 Now the diagram gives only approximate values due to the manual manipulation, but I am sure it's easy to solve once one knows visualization languages like Processing.

I really liked the experiment and I'm happy with the result. Pollock is the god.

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Uploaded on March 6, 2009
Taken on March 6, 2009