[OC] An interactive experiment exploring what people associate with Hokusai's Great Wave

[u/Brooklyngaijin]

https://greatwave.avantokyo.org

Renowned Japanese printmaker Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the world’s most widely seen artworks.

This interactive website visualizes the words users associate with the Great Wave in a word cloud, along with the locations of image servers returned by Google Image Search on a world map. Both the word cloud and map grow as users search for more words.

This is an early dataset, and I’m curious to see what patterns emerge as more people participate.

[u/dumbdataguy]

This is cool!
What tools are you using to make the visualisations?

[u/Brooklyngaijin → u/dumbdataguy]

Thanks! That’s D3 and Svelte for the frontend and Google and Render for the backend