Creative Tech Taxonomy

Creative Tech Taxonomy

Medium: Web Tool

Date: Nov - Dec 2023

Role: Creative Technologist

Tools: React, D3.js, Python (for data processing)

Original taxonomy from Blair Neal.

I parsed the database, make the static images into interactive visualization and hosted on github.

More info can be found in Blair's Github Repo:

An open taxonomy of software, hardware, and concepts related to creative technology and creative coding. Many relationships and hierarchies between topics are very subjective and have many flaws, so please don't take these too seriously - if you have a correction or suggestion, please submit a pull request. This is a labor of love and not meant to be too prescriptive, just illustrative.

This was created because taxonomies for this undefined space are important tools for developing a common language and grammar to better enable communication and education. Read more of my longwinded thoughts on all that in my post here.

Originally created as a visual map here.

I later adapted this idea to a JSON structure for easy modification and portability to other environments.

The diagram was originally made as a static image, but @HeidiHe made some huge improvements and now we can run this on a Github pages or locally so that it can be visualized and manipulated.

Website

link: https://laserpilot.github.io/Creative_Tech_Taxonomy/