Fields · Study 011
Ridgelines
Thirty-eight noise traces stacked so each hides the one behind, forming a ridgeline plot that rolls like a mountain range. Hover to raise a peak.
What you're looking at
Every line is a one dimensional slice through the same noise field, offset a little from the slice above. Each line is filled with the background colour before it is stroked, so nearer ridges cover farther ones. That one trick, the painter's algorithm, is what makes flat lines read as terrain.
The idea behind it
Ridgeline plots are a real statistical tool for comparing many distributions on one axis. The look became famous through a 1970 plot of radio pulses from the first known pulsar, later borrowed for one of the best known album covers of the decade.
Try this
Move the pointer across the stack to lift a peak wherever you hover.
