ChaserTracer - Monthly

CharserTracer is a visual animation piece showing storm chasers' movements as they traverse the midwest seeking twisters. While over-hyped chaser TV shows like Storm Chasers show a heavily edited micro-view of storm chasing, I wanted to create an eye-in-the-sky view of how chasers chase.

Watch the swarming, dispersing, and migrating patterns of storm chasers in these animations.

I created ChaserTracer with data from SevereStudios, who shared 7 months of 1-second GPS data from 100's of chasers. (Much thanks to SevereStudios.) Storm damage reports from tornadoes, winds, and hail were obtained from NOAA. I also created ChaserTracer to learn how to plot location data with Processing, made easier by the Unfolding library.

More information at DataTechArt.org

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Science & Technology

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• DataTechArt.org
• visualization
• Storm
• Chasing
• tornado
• thunderstorm
• SevereStudios
• twister
• NOAA
• Art
• Data