"Wind Map is inspired by visualizations of global wind patterns: massive amounts of weather are fed into a supercomputer, which then produces a live “wind map.” The swirls and swoops are color-coded: areas of blue and green denote relative calm and light breezes, while red and purple represent devastating conditions in a tropical system. There is something poetic about seeing our atmosphere on such a macro scale; the colors converted from numerical data also resemble van Gogh’s brushstrokes. The confluence of the empirical and the aesthetic in “wind maps” has proven wildly inspiring during the writing process of this piece." —Sam Wu

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