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Data Weaving
The sensing devices (microphones, video cameras, sensors) extract information from the beehive, the colony and the environment.
These sensor readings need to be translated into a visualisation process.
My starting point, concept and metaphore, is the technique of weaving. The weaving designs have a mathematical basis and all information relates to dots, points or pixels. The bee comb is constructed out of an hexagonal pattern in which every cell can be approached as a pixel. Another bee element that relates to dots and pixels are the panoptical bee eyes, formed out of more than 6000 individual hexagonal facets.
atipical bee comb
yellow = air temperature, orange = solar radiation, blue = soil temperature
6 temperature sensors in the beehive over 6 months
some examples of jaquard-weaving design:
comb weaving
