Everyone hates elevator music however everybody will love Elevation Music.
Elevation Music is an interactive map during which the elevation knowledge is styled based mostly on the depth of an accompanying music observe. It’s a dancing map!
If you wish to know the way Elevation Music works the creator’s weblog put up explains:
‘This demo makes use of Mapbox GL JS raster-color-value and different raster-* paint properties to change the colours on the map by elevation, based mostly on the depth of the music. Flip sound on and click on the play button to start out the expertise.’
The weblog put up additionally reveals that the tune utilized by the map is definitely referred to as ‘Elevation’.
Inside each cartographer, there’s a musician attempting to get out – or at the least plainly approach, judging by the variety of musical maps.
Take, for instance, the ever-popular Ohio is a Piano. Andy Woodruff’s map turns Ohio’s 88 counties into the 88 keys of a piano, which means you possibly can actually play the map like an instrument. You’ll be able to even hearken to it carry out a model of Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer.
Transit maps might be devices too. For instance MTA.me Conductor transforms Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 New York subway map right into a real-time string instrument. It visualizes subway trains transferring throughout the community – and performs a word each time one practice crosses paths with one other.
Hearth up the map and simply sit again as a New York subway symphony consists and carried out in actual time. You’ll be able to even be a part of the composition by plucking the paths created by particular person trains.
Mapbox’s Animate 3D buildings based mostly on ambient sounds is one other dancing map – however this time, it’s the buildings that groove. As a substitute of elevation knowledge being influenced by music, this map makes 3D buildings reply to sound.
In accordance with Mapbox:
“It makes use of runtime styling with the Net Audio API to create a map the place the 3D buildings dynamically change top to the rhythm of your ambient atmosphere, giving the looks of dancing.”
In layman’s phrases? The buildings on this map will dance if you sing to them!
