twarea

Simulate your twitter area (the follow graph as springs)

Some output:

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

lcrs/twarea