Recreating Joy Division's iconic album artwork in Python, using Matplotlib, Pandas, and the pulsar.csv dataset.
The original artwork was created using electromagnetic radio waves from pulsar PSR B1919+21, discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967.
Here's my rendering:
Many thanks to these sources:
- Borgar: https://gist.github.com/borgar/31c1e476b8e92a11d7e9
- Mike Bostock: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/psr-b1919-21
- R on datawookie: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/07/recreating-unknown-pleasures-graphic/
- Igor Oliveira: https://github.com/igorol/unknown_pleasures_plot