Russell Weaver

A geographer who studies why things are where they are, and how people can share them better. Model builder and math artist behind Ground and Sound.

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

Ground × Sound is open: math art from a geographer.

Contour Plates are maps of ground that isn't there, drawn from equations. Sound Plates are tones you can see, in 40,000 grains of sand.

Printed to order as prints, tees, and notebooks:
https://t.co/ZH1OxBFeUZ

#geography

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

@auremipai Thank you🖤💛

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

What a contour line is: flood the land one height at a time, and keep each shoreline.

Twenty-nine heights, evenly spaced, make Plate III, Lake Effect.

#contourlines #topography #mathart #generativeart #maps

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

@Pixel0Symphony I love your work. This is gorgeous. Thought you might like: https://t.co/kWiLZgO17i

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

What a contour line is: flood the land one height at a time, and keep each shoreline.

Twenty-nine heights, evenly spaced, make Plate III, Lake Effect.

#contourlines #topography #mathart #generativeart #maps

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

@anish2good Love your work! I've been playing with Chladni Sound Plates: https://t.co/viT7PPbpXD

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

40,000 grains on a plate humming at 639 Hz, up close. A grain hops as hard as the plate shakes under it, and slides toward the lines that stay still. 600 steps later, the sand has drawn the Heart. Play the tone: https://t.co/SX1vDqMAqq

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

The six so far: the Wage Atlas, NYS Federal Impacts Dashboard, NYS Evictions Dashboard, NYS Digital Equity Dashboard, NYS Commuter Flow Map, and Buffalo Community Information System. All of them link from one hub: https://t.co/cFD8acVt5k

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

High Road Policy has been quiet since 2024. Today it's back at a new home, with six of our data tools rebuilt, from the Wage Atlas to the Buffalo Community Information System, and more on the way. Here's where we've been: https://t.co/dv2eR6MTr2

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

Plate III is Lake Effect. Its recipe stretches the ground six times wider than it is tall, as if combed by a west wind off Lake Erie.

The seed is 716, Buffalo's area code.
https://t.co/VZUAgLt8k2

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

Contour Plates: seven topographic maps of places that don't exist, each after a place that does.

A recipe for a kind of ground, a seed, and lines traced at 30 even heights, every fifth one heavier, like a survey map.
https://t.co/b5Z39t4dT9

[Russell Weaver @groundXsound]

40,000 grains on a plate humming at 639 Hz, up close. A grain hops as hard as the plate shakes under it, and slides toward the lines that stay still. 600 steps later, the sand has drawn the Heart. Play the tone: https://t.co/SX1vDqMAqq