{"id":1425,"date":"2017-04-21T14:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:11:41","slug":"spinning-your-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2017\/04\/21\/spinning-your-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning your wheels&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m kind of obsessed with Spirograph. My grandparents had one from the 1970s that used actual push pins to hold down the plastic gears and when I visited them I spent hours making colorful mathematical doodles (and probably a huge mess). A few years ago I bought a cheap set off of Amazon and it might be my favorite mindless stress reliever.<\/p><p>Sometimes I need something like that. An activity that requires minimal decisions about what I\u2019m going to do next and with super trivial outcomes. It\u2019s mindless but consuming.<\/p><p>Apparently it wasn\u2019t always a toy. A mathematician named Abakanowicz invented it in the late 1800s for calculating an area delimited by curves. Toys based on his gears have been around since 1908. During our data viz project this semester, I found some really interesting links about spirograph and data, since, if you think about it, it was originally a data visualization\u2026.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcinnamon.com\/portfolio\/spirograph\">A D3 spirograph generator<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/artist-hacks-turntables-to-create-giant-spirograph-drawings-video-1765709266.html\">Hacked turntables that make spirograph art<\/a><\/p><p>And finally, here\u2019s a video of me taking a break and making a spirograph drawing.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/213856815?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mindless activity like Spirograph is just what I need in the last two weeks of classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[24,39,29],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-incidentals","tag-datavis","tag-making","tag-pen","entry-card--portrait"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Spinngwheels-01.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86O3z-mZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}