DATA POEM CONSTELLATION
A star map of the grid. Each star is one hour of electricity. Drag to rotate. Scroll to zoom. Click a star to see its painting.
X axis (red) = hour of day (0–23). Y axis (green) = day-ahead price (EUR/MWh). Z axis (blue) = renewable share (%). Star size = total generation (GW). Star color = carbon intensity (green = clean, amber = moderate, red = fossil-heavy). Brightness fades as stars age. Threads connect consecutive hours within each day. ◆ Diamond stars hold a grid record.
BRUTALIST DATA MONUMENTS
Every two hours, the same grid data that generates the painting above is fed into a second artistic pipeline — but this one uses no AI text model. Instead, over twenty dimensions of the grid state are mapped deterministically to the visual properties of a brutalist concrete sculpture in a surreal landscape.
Every pixel is data. The monument's height encodes total generation. Its stacked horizontal bands — raw steel, glass crystal, obsidian, crumbling concrete — represent each energy source proportional to its share. The surface condition reflects how clean the grid is running: pristine edges when renewables dominate, cracked and rusted when fossil fuels take over. The lighting color tells you the price. The ground tells you how volatile the market was. The weather you see is the weather that was.
When an hour breaks a record, a golden seam cracks open through the monument's core — light pouring out from within, as if the structure is alive.
The oil paintings and the monuments see the same data through opposite lenses. The paintings are romantic, interpretive, emotional. The monuments are systematic, encoded, architectural. Together, they bracket the full range of what data art can be.
- Height
- Total generation (GW)
- Width
- Consumption (GW)
- Bands
- Generation mix — steel (wind), crystal (solar), obsidian (gas), basalt (coal), crumbling concrete (lignite)
- Surface
- Renewable share — pristine (>70%) to cracked with rebar (<35%)
- Lean
- Net import (tilting) vs export (standing proud)
- Light color
- DA price — green (negative) → blue → amber → orange → red (>150€)
- Ground
- Price volatility — still pool (calm) to fractured earth (wild)
- Haze
- Carbon intensity
- Vegetation
- Temperature
- Sky
- Cloud cover
- Shadows
- Solar radiation
- Motion
- Wind speed
- Season
- Month of year
- Context
- Weekday (industrial) vs weekend (solitary)
- Golden seam
- This hour holds a grid record
ASCII LANDSCAPE
The same grid data — compressed into a text-based landscape. Each energy source gets a horizontal zone proportional to its generation share. Zero API cost. Pure Python. Updated with every new reading.
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