Through the Window

Eri Ichikawa

Through the Window is an installation that includes visualisation of real-time weather data from over 150,000 cities around the world.

The abstract living green images projected inside the window frame on a wall changes colour, growing direction and speed depending on weather data from the cities. The city displayed changes every 30 seconds so that viewers can feel as if they are travelling around the world as they look through the window.

The application is made with P5.js and loads current weather data using API. It then converts the numbers related to temperature, humidity and wind speed and angle into visuals.

After experiencing the COVID-19-related lockdown, during which many people were unable to travel, this work aims to let people sense the weather of somewhere else without physically going there and invoke a feeling of virtual travel.


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Goldsmiths, University of London
St James Hatcham Building

    Eri Ichikawa

    Eri Ichikawa is a visual designer whose work engages with abstract images formed by generative art. Drawing on her background in book design and typesetting, her interest is in graphically visualising information from numeric data to abstract messages, both on a network and on paper. Her desire is to make aesthetics equally accessible and useful to more people, regardless of their backgrounds and without any requirements.

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    Expanded Terrains   data  generative  

    Eri Ichikawa

    Eri Ichikawa is a visual designer whose work engages with abstract images formed by generative art. Drawing on her background in book design and typesetting, her interest is in graphically visualising information from numeric data to abstract messages, both on a network and on paper. Her desire is to make aesthetics equally accessible and useful to more people, regardless of their backgrounds and without any requirements.