[OC] Volumetrische Visualisierung des Rennens um den Gouverneur von Virginia 2025 (Blender + Python)
Von Killfile
[OC] Volumetrische Visualisierung des Rennens um den Gouverneur von Virginia 2025 (Blender + Python)
Von Killfile
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This is an attempt to correct several issues I’ve seen in election visualizations in American politics. By using volumetric representations of vote totals I maintain fidelity of both shape and position for each Virginia locality (Virginia cities are politically independent). Each locality is shaded to represent the margin of victory with a white mid-point; this prevents the eye’s bias towards red from taking over the map.
Rendering is in Blender. Anyone who wants to provide me with a materials and lighting tutorial suitable for a backend software engineer would be greatly appreciated.
Soooo much red on the map…..some would say.
Pictured: why Republicans hate cities
The very tallest tower: is that Alexandria, Arlington, or something else?
Nice work.
A similarly-interesting companion map would be one that shows tax dollars contributed to state coffers by each county and city. No idea where to get that data set, though.
Can we(you) do this for the national maps?
Rather than using shading to represent margin of victory, the height/volume should be absolute margin of victory (net vote count). That would provide an at-a-glance illustration of how the total count stacks up and where is contributing in each direction.
This is great. It conveys what you intend: volume of votes per county and affiliation of the voters. Much better than a flat map. There may be ways to tweak it but I don’t know that the small adjustments suggested would materially improve the basic read here. Ty OP.