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 I'm planning to create a visualization based on a dataset of songs. Each song has a variety of information, with numbers to represent the energy of the song, danceability, valence, tempo, etc. alongside the artist, album/song name, and genre of the track. There's plenty of options in terms of where to go with this data, though I intend to have a control selecting the song genre and another to scroll through the songs within that genre - one at a time. From there, I plan on having the visualization of each song, which will be some form of geo shape, varying in location based on the song's valence (happy/sad) and energy levels. How energetic/danceable a song is will change not only the size of the visualization itself, but also how it animates/moves. As you scroll through the genres, genre text and the background color will change. Each song will have the title of it listed underneath, and the minimal geo shape may also change as you scroll between songs. In terms of mood, t...

 For this exercise with the blue theme, I wanted to have a slider that controlled the saturation of blue, and some type of cool texture effect to trigger with a button as well. After playing around with lots of the TOPs, I decided on the Edge operator to outline edges. For the slider, it controlled the Low Blue parameter of the Level operator, which was then sent into the Edge operator to control the shade of blue on the edges. For the button, it changed the strength parameter of the Edge operator.  Network flow-wise, I intended on having the video itself come out of its own container: just the movie file. A level up, that video would get its Level and Edge operators which would be controlled by the slider and button. Another level up, it would be sent to a Null operator and into a content container, before another container would combine both the controls and content. Lastly, it was put into the window. In terms of choices, I chose a video I took on top of a mountain in Vermo...