Pulsar Pleasures
Recreation of the pulsar visualization made famouse by Joy Division. This visualization shows a full 100 cycles of data from B1919+21 pulsar which was the also the basis for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover. Unlike the album cover, this version shows the full data uncropped to reveal the much shorter overall duty cycle and draws dynamically to better represent the actual pulsar timing (period of 1.3373 seconds).
100 cycles of pulsar data radio intensities comes from WSRT radio telescope located in the Netherlands and was generously supplied for this project by Dr Patrick Weltevrede. (to reuse just grab the file lgm.csv). This visualization was created in 2013 using d3.js and was programmed in clojurescript using the strokes library.