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The Beauty of Music, Visualized

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The beauty of great data visualization is that it renders wildly complex information into easily digestible pieces. What was once complicated still is, but now it’s much easier to understand. Music does that in its own way, taking individual notes that fit together via incredibly complex patterns and stringing them together to make a rich and nuanced flow that gets past the complexity. When the two come together, you get something like this. Prepare to be mesmerized and blow part of an otherwise productive day with Igor Stravinksy’s The Rite of Spring, visualized, from the people at The Music Animation Machine.

h/t Flowing Data

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The Beauty of Music, Visualized

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Friday Cat Blogging – 20 December 2013

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This is the second of Marian’s watercolor heart quilts. (You saw the other one in August, and yet another heart-themed quilt on Valentine’s Day.) It’s machine pieced and machine quilted. It’s also nearly our last quilt of the year. There’s one more to go next Friday, which will make for a grand total of 23 quilts if I’ve counted correctly, and then in 2014 we’ll return to garden-variety catblogging. In the meantime, enjoy your weekend and watch out for the shopping mobs.

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Friday Cat Blogging – 20 December 2013

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