A project by Isabelle Ho
This project draws from the table top role playing game Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. In the game, all beings follow an alignment system, be it player or monster. These alignments consist of the Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic vs Good/Neutral/Evil grid system. Using the monster statistics drawn from 3 key books, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, Volo's Guide to Monsters and the Monster Manual, I created a heat map displaying the statistics of monster types vs alignments to showcase how varied or limited certain monster types are within the alignment spectrum.
Data
Using 5eTools as a resource, I sorted out the number of monsters with specific alignments under each monster type and created a heatmap using Sheets' conditional formatting and also generated it in p5.js.
Artefact
Based on the heatmap data of my p5.js sketch, I recreated it using addressable LEDs programmed with an Arduino Uno and used them to light up 140 D&D die made from epoxy resin.