- 36 x 48 inches
- Bic Cristal
- XY Mechanical Plotter
- March 21, 2011
First 24 Hours of Spring (03-21-2011) is a XY mechanical pen plotter drawing. The drawing was created using a spirographic visualization program developed with Processing.js. The National Weather Service provided a dataset with four variables that included temperature, dew point, wind speed, and visibility. These variables were used to show hourly changes for March 21, 2011 through a sequence of spirographic renderings.
The work was first shown at the 2011 VisWeek Art Show, a curated exhibition of work from renowned artists and artist-scientist teams, organized by Daniel F. Keefe and Bruce Campbell. The exhibition was accompanied by a featured display of Maxwell Roberts’ creative information design and mapmaking spanning over 10 years.
