Designer / researcher visualising image collections
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined February 2017
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Visual experiment turning a collection of 18th century watercolours into a #millefleur style digital tapestry. Thank you @statelibrarynsw for making your Earl of Derby collection accessible.
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Thanks @flannerm for a great review of Natural Things, including a wonderful interpretation of the cover art (which was far more @naturalpixels than me):
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@NewWorldNature1 @annatoledano @HistorianDiary
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Excellent piece by editors @NewWorldNature1 @annatoledano @HistorianDiary critiquing the #visualisation work @naturalpixels and I created for their book: Designing Natural Things: How Images Make Meaning in History of Science 4sonline.org/news_manager.ph…
#remixing an illustration from the Earl of Derby Collection from the @statelibrarynsw #madewithslnsw #visualisation #botanicals bit.ly/2oA81y6
Here are the extracted seeds & flowers from volume 5 of the Tal & Dai-ichi Life Derby watercolour collection via @statelibrarynsw (bit.ly/2oA81y6). Each were placed into Pixa and sorted by colour, then arranged into circles. #madewithslnsw #sciart #botany
Generated a rotating globe of some of Ernst Haeckel's 'Art Forms in Nature' illustrations. More plates can be found on @WikiCommons bit.ly/1GIlTwE & on @internetarchive #sciart #Haeckel #naturalhistory #cartography
Ran a pattern generator script on the @britishlibrary's Southeast Asian spice trail watercolour collection bit.ly/2BDCH9w #Psd #Patterns @BL_Labs
Images from Johann Zahn’s 'Oculus Artificialis' (1685) via @PublicDomainRev bit.ly/2Gm0071 & @internetarchive's 'American Entomology' bit.ly/2sAHhTo #SciArt
More experiments mixing two image collections together: @NYPL_Archives's 'Birds of America' (on.nypl.org/2EmWx7K) and @BioDivLibrary's 'Algues Fossiles' (bit.ly/2BVKSzb)
Experiment combining @NYPL_Archives's Iceland falcon with @BioDivLibrary's 'Algues Fossiles' – on.nypl.org/2ElorFf + bit.ly/2CgsAUT
Moons & planets extracted from the @britishlibrary Space & SciFi Flickr album, ordered by size bit.ly/2ykx2Qz @BL_Labs #sciart #infoviz
Finally, here's all 6 volumes of the Tal & Dai-ichi Life Collection of natural history watercolours, 1790s bit.ly/2zA8EP2 #madewithslnsw #infoviz #naturalhistory
Textures extracted from 'Illustrations of British Mycology' via @BioDivLibrary & @internetarchive bit.ly/2zu5day #sciart
Visualisation of Anna Atkins's cyanotypes of British algae via @PublicDomainRev @rijksmuseum @NYPL_Archives on.nypl.org/2AdqIMa #sciart
Textures from 'On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata' via @PublicDomainRev bit.ly/2z0u9ci #SciArt #NaturalHistory
Here's volume 5 of the TAL & Dai-ichi Life collection, approx 259 watercolours from @statelibrarynsw bit.ly/2zxDGUH #madewithslnsw
These psd script outputs are starting to look like textiles - illo from 'Astronomy' 1875 - @PublicDomainRev bit.ly/2y09OUB #infoviz
Illustrations extracted from Cook's voyage round the world, sourced from
@internetarchive bit.ly/2yGvz99 & @TroveAustralia #dataviz
Experimenting w/ photoshop scripts to create patterns from 'The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings' bit.ly/2hXEsTz @PublicDomainRev
A visualisation of birds eggs from @nypl Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection on.nypl.org/2h0MnA1 @NYPL_Archives @nypl_labs #dataviz
