Gallery
Each example below is a live Umwelt viewer: a visualization, a structured textual description, and a sonification, all generated from the same specification. Every example links into the editor, where you can remix it — swap fields, change encodings, or load your own data.
The examples are grouped by the structure of the data — how many dimensions you group and traverse by, and how many measures you read off. Data shape determines the space of encodings across all three modalities at once. Each card names the familiar chart type it resembles and characterizes what its sound and text are doing.
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One measure over one dimension
The simplest shape: a single quantity read along one axis.
Distribution
- Visual
- Histogram
- Sound
- Audio histogram — pitch is the count in each bin
- Text
- Counts by horsepower bin
Stereo panning
- Visual
- Bar chart
- Sound
- Pitch is population; stereo pan follows the age axis
- Text
- Ordered by age group
Seasonal cycle
- Visual
- Line chart
- Sound
- A pitch sweep you hear cycle four times
- Text
- Ordered month by month
Relating two measures
Two quantities read against each other. The visualization places one on each spatial axis; the sonification can traverse them one after another, or play them at the same time with two distinct voices.
Scatterplot
- Visual
- Scatterplot
- Sound
- Two pitch sweeps across the binned axes
- Text
- Points grouped by origin
Connected scatterplot
- Visual
- Connected scatterplot
- Sound
- Two pitch lines traversing the years
- Text
- Ordered by year
Overlaid voices
- Visual
- Layered lines
- Sound
- Daily high and low as two timbres at once
- Text
- High and low over the months
One measure over nested dimensions
One quantity broken down by two or more grouping dimensions. Nesting shows up in every modality: faceted panels, a grouped text tree, and a traversal that steps through each level in order.
Bubble plot
- Visual
- Bubble plot
- Sound
- Pitch nested by disaster type, then year
- Text
- Grouped by disaster type
Multi-series line chart
- Visual
- Multi-series line chart
- Sound
- One pitch line per company
- Text
- Grouped by company
Trellis plot
- Visual
- Trellis (faceted) plot
- Sound
- Pitch nested site → variety → year
- Text
- Nested by site, variety, year
Composed views
Specifications that combine several views. Each view is its own visual and audio unit, composed by layering or concatenation.