Markov Chain Graph

This sketch aims to show the state transitions through a simple markov chain. I'm thinking of a component of a bridge (or whatever) which can have one of four condition grades. In each year, there is a probability of moving to the next worst condition grade.

Each blue plot represents a different run through the chain. The black line is the average state transition.

Move the mouse around to control the speed, and the persistence of each plot. I was interested to see if I could visualise the distribution around the mean - not sure it quite works.

Hello World

So I've started this blog to share the work of myself (and others I guess) in the fields of generative art/data visualisation.

Been interested in this stuff for some time and finally got around to giving it a go.

I've chosen to learn the Processing language (mainly after seeing the amazing results produced by the Substrate artwork some years ago). So the goal is to produce beautiful work like that, but got to start somewhere.

I started here - my first Processing sketch. Click on the area below to draw some circles. Circles get bigger the further down the screen you are, and more transparent the further left you go. Right-click to clear the screen.

Not too exciting, but learned how to draw to the screen, and handle mouse interactions.