Yahoo! Weather Sketch
Our assignment for this week was to utilize the Yahoo! weather feed and use it to generate a 3D sketch. I chose to focus on temperature and conditions. We were also allowed to use two colors, plus a black background. I decided to use rectangles arranged in a circle because I was inspired by
this photo and
this photo.
SF weather data:
The Bahamas weather data:
The Bahamas in the morning:
New York weather data:
I’m happy with the way my sketch turned out, but ideally, I would’ve really loved to have more color variation.
View the sketch
here.
Here is a gist of the code:
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