{"id":55,"date":"2014-12-12T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/chasing-double-rainbows\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:07:22","slug":"chasing-double-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/chasing-double-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Double Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Michelle Chandra<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&quot;Chasing Double Rainbows&quot; visualizes the ephemeral phenomena known as double rainbows by mapping geo-tagged photographs posted to Instagram in the previous 24 hours (chasingdoublerainbows.com) .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingdoublerainbows.com\/\">http:\/\/www.chasingdoublerainbows.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-55 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2014\/12\/1418416506_rainbowvizchandra.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2014\/12\/1418416506_rainbowvizchandra-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"map of rainbow\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2014\/12\/1418416506_rainbowvizchandra-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2014\/12\/1418416506_rainbowvizchandra.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>Chasing Double Rainbows (www.chasingdoublerainbows.com) visualizes the ephemeral phenomena known as double rainbows by mapping geo-tagged photographs posted to Instagram in the previous 24 hours. The visualization connects users who witnessed a double rainbow closest in time to each other by drawing a rainbow arc between each sequential sighting.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe visualization was inspired by a YouTube video by Paul &#8220;Bear&#8221; Vasquez whose effervescent euphoria for double rainbows captured the world. Today, Paul&#039;s video has over 40 million views. Chasing Double Rainbows is neither a scientific, nor serious visualization, but a facetious data art project celebrating the universal fascination created by the sighting of a double rainbow.<\/p>\n<p>\nInstagram has over 350,000 public photographs tagged #doublerainbow. In a given 24-hour period, depending on rainy weather conditions world-wide and luck, Chasing Double Rainbows visualizes anywhere between 30 &#8211; 300 geo-tagged photographs. <\/p>\n<p>A double rainbow is an optical illusion in which two rainbows are seen. The illusion is created by the reflection of two rainbows in a rain droplet.<\/p>\n<p>\nA physical map visualizes real time data and was made using plexiglass, wood and cardboard. The  continent where the most recent double rainbow was sighted is lit using neopixel leds.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe online visualization was built using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, D3.js, Instagram API, and the Google Geocoding API.<\/p>\n<h3>Classes<\/h3>\n<p>Creative Javascript, Designing for Digital Fabrication<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Chandra &quot;Chasing Double Rainbows&quot; visualizes the ephemeral phenomena known as double rainbows by mapping geo-tagged photographs posted to Instagram in the previous 24 hours (chasingdoublerainbows.com) . http:\/\/www.chasingdoublerainbows.com\/ Description Chasing Double Rainbows (www.chasingdoublerainbows.com) visualizes the ephemeral phenomena known as double rainbows by mapping geo-tagged photographs posted to Instagram in the previous 24 hours. The visualization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/chasing-double-rainbows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chasing Double Rainbows<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12852,16149,5596,12853,16150,462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-javascript","category-daniel-rozin","category-designing-for-digital-fabrication","category-lauren-mccarthy","category-michelle-chandra","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}