This is just a sketch of a bunch of circles floating around a screen.
It was inspired by Martin Wattenberg's talk, "What data scientists can learn from data artists" (http://bit.ly/SFx63x). In the talk, Martin describes an exercise where he asks a room full of novice computer programmers to draw circles with code. I decided it might be fun, and spent about an hour writing my own with Processing.
Features:
- You can add circles by clicking
- The color scheme for new circles varies as you move the mouse around the screen.
You can view a live (although possibly not up-to-date) version of it here: http://viz.runningwithdata.com/circles/
And if you really like it, make it your OSX screensaver by using WebSaver: http://code.google.com/p/websaver/