twarea

Simulate your twitter area (the follow graph as springs)

Some output:

https://vimeo.com/382658114

https://vimeo.com/382677254

https://vimeo.com/382682447

The code is "fun!", "exploratory", "casual"

• Hit https://developer.twitter.com, make an app, grab the four keys and set them as the env vars CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET
• twfriends.py downloads your friends' profiles to json in the friends/ folder
• twarea.py downloads you friends' friends' profiles, which takes 8-10 hours because of twitter's API limits
• twavis.py downloads everyone's profile pictures
• twbanners.py gets their banner pictures
• the .hipnc Houdini scenes build the graph from the json, simulate and render it