Logan Williams

blog, mastodon, bluesky, github, résumé, email
Stamen: 12 Sunsets
stamen, getty, semantics, 2020
An interactive interrogation of Los Angeles' built environment and 50 years of photographs by Ed Ruscha for the Getty Research Institute. Winner of a Webby award. Lead developer, interaction designer.
glenecho.stream
environment, scrollytelling, meaning, hardware, go, 2019
Points of view on an urban stream. Wildlife photography, citizen science, and data-collection-as-practice.
Isometric Spacelapse
land, video, conference talk, c++, julia, 2018
By transposing the axes of time and image-space position, unusual aerial viewpoints can be generated.
Where is the Bird's House?
environment, birds, citizen science, shaders, 2025
Explore your eBird data and the ranges of over 11,000 bird species.
Bird Bod Biz
textiles, birds, alomalo, social, 2024
Custom knit bird-inspired sweaters. Become bird. Become warm.
Bird signs and cycles
augmented, ecology, surveillance, exhibition, d3, 2024
Understanding the winter routines of my avian neighbors with the help of a microphone and a neural network.
Bellingcat: OSM Search
published, maps, conference talk, 2023
A guided search engine for Open Street Map to assist geospatial research.
Observatory
poem, published, twitter, 2023
An unpredictable exquisite corpse generated from real-time feelings. Published in The HTML Review.
iNaturalist "Locals" and "Tourists"
blog, maps, news, environment, inaturalist, 2023
Cartographic visualization of psychogeographic patterns in citizen science on iNaturalist.
Bellingcat: Coronavirus Relief Interactive
maps, public data, published, 2020
An interactive article about geographic inequities in the distribution of coronavirus economic relief aid in the US, France, and the UK.
East Bay Live
radio, vue, public data, 2020
East Bay Live was a realtime visual police, fire, and EMS visual scanner. Illuminating the ether of the surveillance infrastructure around us.
Stamen: UCSF Health Atlas
stamen, mapbox, maps, vue, 2020
A geospatial explorer of neighborhood-level health characteristics data developed created for the UCSF School of Medicine Dean’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity.
Carbon footprint modeling maps
maps, environment, js, 2019
The impact of wealth and land use on carbon footprints, exposed using satellite imagery and data from the CoolClimate Network at UC Berkeley.
Points West
photography, land, keyword, 2014-2019
Selected photography.
Stamen: Art Processors
stamen, video, js, 2018
An interactive exploration of electronic queueing at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania.
Stamen: Google Cloud Storage
stamen, docs, video, js, 2018
A data art installation for Google Next 2018. Lead developer, team project.
Fogust
maps, weather, leaflet, d3, js, 2018
Explore the Bay Area's consistent seasonal microclimates with historical data from NOAA's GOES-15.
Conceptquest
interactive, nlp, js, 2018
An interactive hypertext game based on the strange and surprising world of the ConceptNet. Warning: unfiltered crowdsourced content.
59th St. Bridge Song
interactive, land, civic, js, 2018
How well do you know your parks?
Poet is used for poems
poem, nlp, bot, python, twitter, 2018
A computer talks to itself as it random walks the concept net.
Vignette
photography, writing, interactive, docs, ml, js, python, 2016-2017
Vignette is an open source project investigating new ways of encouraging narrative creation from personal media.
Forty Million Daggers!
writing, interactive, land, maps, js, 2017
An interactive drive across the Mojave with detours through lithium brines, water politics, and decaying art.
Looking In New Directions With Google Street View
video, maps, land, python, 2017
Google Street View is a treasure trove of images yearning to be maps of the urban sky and hallucinatory road trips.
Fog Today
maps, civic, 2017
Track the San Francisco fog-line in real-time with NOAA's GOES-16.
No-tifier
hardware, stupid hackathon, 2017
Isn't it time to listen to a small rectangle?
Caption Obscura
maps, ml, photography, js, 2017
Finding patterns and meaning in personal photos through the computational misconceptions of a poorly trained image captioning algorithm.
As Though I Were There
poetry, land, maps, 2017
What topographic ritual summons city from chaparral?
Thermografree
hardware, docs, photography, 2017
An open source, medium resolution, and broadband thermal imaging camera.
Phase-based frame interpolation
image processing, photography, julia, 2016
A Julia library for multiscale pyramidal image decomposition, and an application to frame interpolation.
Hokusai backpack
textiles, 2015
A handmade backpack with custom dyed fabric.
Wears the Territory
textiles, land, maps, 2015
Geographic scarves, "hand"-knit with All Yarns Are Beautiful.
San Francisco language dot maps
maps, land, python, 2015
Understanding the linguistic diversity of San Francisco.
Optical Coherence Tomography
thesis, photography, hardware, python, 2014
My master's thesis on three dimensional imaging inside the mammilian cochlea.
General Abstract Nonsense
writing, radio, audio, 2014
A radio program for WMBR-Cambridge.
Transdomain Feedback
audio, video, max/msp, 2013
Exploring the artistic effects of a feedback loop that repeatedly bridged video and audio domains.
Linear lens arrays
image processing, photography, python, 2013
From the "lightfield" collected by a smartphone in a moving vehicle, we can synthesize a mile-wide aperture.
Miscellaneous academic projects
image processing, fpga, hardware, 2011-2013
Recursive augmented reality, underwater gliders, and an autonomous robot.
Protei
hardware, docs, 2011
An open-source, flexibly-hulled sailboat.
Squarecave
audio, synthesizers, hardware, 2009
A DIY analog synthesizer with eight step sequencer.