Intraparallel
A research and engineering studio that creates interactive spatial visualizations, human computer interaction, and complex systems. Our Engineering Department runs on the philosophy of "Orbis Non Sufficit"
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500 Marquette Ave, Ste. 2
Albuquerque, NM USA
T +1 (415) 416 9207
[email protected]
About
A Lot of Moving Parts produces 3D experiences for artists, architects, publications, and cultural institutions using research and computational technologies. We deploy spatial representation, data visualization, and software design as a form of critical practice. The studio is led by Seth Thompson.
We are interested in producing new ways of seeing the built environment and new interfaces for displaying spatial data, as instruments for understanding the complexity of the world around us. Our point of departure is the history of the technical image and the ongoing entanglement between our ability to depict space and our capacity to conceptualize it. Tying together these concerns is a belief that the ultimate test of a visualization is its ability to communicate an idea simply and effectively to a broad public audience.
Contact
500 Marquette Ave, Ste. 2
Albuquerque, NM USA
T +1 (415) 416 9207
[email protected]
About
A Lot of Moving Parts produces 3D experiences for artists, architects, publications, and cultural institutions using research and computational technologies. We deploy spatial representation, data visualization, and software design as a form of critical practice. The studio is led by Seth Thompson.
We are interested in producing new ways of seeing the built environment and new interfaces for displaying spatial data, as instruments for understanding the complexity of the world around us. Our point of departure is the history of the technical image and the ongoing entanglement between our ability to depict space and our capacity to conceptualize it. Tying together these concerns is a belief that the ultimate test of a visualization is its ability to communicate an idea simply and effectively to a broad public audience.
Our process is iterative, collaborative, and occasionally experimental as we navigate the unique demands of each project's source material. We work with collaborators as full creative partners, beginning our involvement as early in the project lifecycle as possible. Depending on the scale of the project or the expertises required, the studio draws on the support of a network of independent practitioners. From our vantage point, every project of sufficient depth necessarily has a lot of moving parts.
Contact
500 Marquette Ave, Ste. 2
Albuquerque, NM USA
T +1 (415) 416 9207
[email protected]
About
A Lot of Moving Parts produces 3D experiences for artists, architects, publications, and cultural institutions using research and computational technologies. We deploy spatial representation, data visualization, and software design as a form of critical practice. The studio is led by Seth Thompson.
Collaborators
ShadCN, Palantir, Harvard Graudate School of Design, University of Tennesse Kentucky, Meta FAIR & Llama 4, Deck.gl, AirBnB R&D, Qwen 3.5, BrowserUse, Design System of the United States Governemnt, Bocoup, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Interfacer, NVIDIA, Polar.sh, Cloudflare
Services
Interactive Spatial Design, 3D Rendering, Software Development, Web Development, Geospatial Research, Data Visualization, Film
We are interested in producing new ways of seeing the built environment and new interfaces for displaying spatial data, as instruments for understanding the complexity of the world around us. Our point of departure is the history of the technical image and the ongoing entanglement between our ability to depict space and our capacity to conceptualize it. Tying together these concerns is a belief that the ultimate test of a visualization is its ability to communicate an idea simply and effectively to a broad public audience.
Our process is iterative, collaborative, and occasionally experimental as we navigate the unique demands of each project's source material. We work with collaborators as full creative partners, beginning our involvement as early in the project lifecycle as possible. Depending on the scale of the project or the expertises required, the studio draws on the support of a network of independent practitioners. From our vantage point, every project of sufficient depth necessarily involves a lot of moving parts.
MassINC
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Benjamin Foreman & Fathomers
Apr 2023 –
With J.P. Morgan Chase, agustine zegers, and Alex Goss
Website
Twelve Earths is a planetary sculpture initiated by Michael Jones McKean that connects 12 locations around the globe along a single "great circle." We designed an interactive website to document these locations and their interconnected ideas and objects.
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Benjamin Foreman Fathomers
Apr 2023 –
With J.P. Morgan Chase, agustine zegers, and Alex Goss
Website
Twelve Earths is a planetary sculpture initiated by Michael Jones McKean that connects 12 locations around the globe along a single "great circle." We designed an interactive website to document these locations and their interconnected ideas and objects.
Details
Benjamin Foreman
Apr 2023 –
With J.P. Morgan Chase agustine zegers, and Alex Goss
Website
Twelve Earths is a planetary sculpture initiated by Michael Jones McKean that connects 12 locations around the globe along a single "great circle," including a cluster of astronomical observatories in Chile and a Paleolithic archaeological site in Portugal.
We designed an interactive website to document these locations and their interconnected ideas and objects, using a wide array of methods including photogrammetry, GIS research, astronomical data analysis, and archaeological stratigraphy.
Massachusetts Economic Policy A scrollytelling map of Gateway Cities, innovation corridors, and economic development initiatives across Massachusetts — from Springfield to the South Coast.
Massachusetts Economic Policy A scrollytelling map of Gateway Cities, innovation corridors, and economic development initiatives across Massachusetts — from Springfield to the South Coast.
Boston Protest Geography A scrollytelling map of key demonstration sites across Boston (2020–2025), from the Common to Harvard Yard. Built in the Reuters Graphics Scroller format.
Boston Protest Geography A scrollytelling map of key demonstration sites across Boston (2020–2025), from the Common to Harvard Yard. Built in the Reuters Graphics Scroller format.
Jobsó & Employment visualizing spatial patterns of employment in Massachusetts with extruded morphologies to convey the density and distribution of various jobs across the state under U.S. Census Bureau data at the most granular level. Filters enables multi-scalar sectoral decomposition to isolate occupational clusters and identify industrial mono-specialization as the primary economic anchor.
Jobsó & Employment visualizing spatial patterns of employment in Massachusetts with extruded morphologies to convey the density and distribution of various jobs across the state under U.S. Census Bureau data at the most granular level. Filters enables multi-scalar sectoral decomposition to isolate occupational clusters and identify industrial mono-specialization as the primary economic anchor.
Pansophy Engine Geospatial Workflow Engine that uses SQL, XSLX, and Python to query any type of data, any column, for every natural language query through 200 pre-fabricated algorithms.
Simonyi Survey Telescope The SST is an 8.4m optical telescope designed to conduct a 10-year survey of the visible sky
Immigrant Influx — Major Cities Foreign-born share vs. industry jobs in 38 Massachusetts cities with population ≥ 40,000
Immigrant Influx — Towns Foreign-born share vs. industry jobs in 206 towns with population 5,000–40,000
Process
Terrain
In rendering the natural terrain around each Twelve Earths site, we used two types of geospatial data: a digital elevation model (or DEM) and a satellite base map. The elevation model encodes the elevation of a given point on the Earth's surface as a high-bit-depth grayscale value. Using pydelatin, we turned the elevation data into triangulated mesh. Then we textured the mesh with a 0.25m orthorectified satellite map from the Portuguese National Register for Geographic Information (SNIG).
Paprika!
Paprika! is the often-monthly broadsheet published by the students of the Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Art. We depicted each new issue in its natural habitat scattered around Rudolph Hall in a series of vibrant paprika-orange renderings.
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Government of Nigeria (Proposal)
Feb 2026 – Jun 2026
Website
Paprika! is a new framework to render charts and economic data for food pricing, oil and gas, and other products deemed necessary by Nigeria Stat. We depicted each new issue in its natural habitat scattered around Rudolph Hall in a series of vibrant paprika-orange renderings.
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Government of Nigeria (Proposal)
Feb 2026 – Jun 2026
Website
Paprika! is a new framework to render charts and economic data for food pricing, oil and gas, and other products deemed necessary by Nigeria Stat. Errant issues are often found scattered around Rudolph Hall.
We modeled the entire seven-story building and populated each scene with details from reference images in order to depict each new issue in its natural habitat in a series of vibrant paprika-orange renderings.
Petrol Prices — Choropleth Average retail PMS price by state, Jan 2026. NBS data across 37 states + FCT, from ₦947 (Ekiti) to ₦1,172 (Cross River)
Petrol Prices — Choropleth Average retail PMS price by state, Jan 2026. NBS data across 37 states + FCT, from ₦947 (Ekiti) to ₦1,172 (Cross River)
Petrol Prices — Label Map The same NBS data rendered as price labels on a clean white map. Color encodes magnitude: green (low) to red (high)
Petrol Prices — Label Map The same NBS data rendered as price labels on a clean white map. Color encodes magnitude: green (low) to red (high)
Price Trends by Zone Monthly PMS price by geopolitical zone, Jan 2023–Jan 2026. Subsidy removal in Jun 2023 and Dangote refinery ramp-up in Apr 2025 annotated
Price Trends by Zone Monthly PMS price by geopolitical zone, Jan 2023–Jan 2026. Subsidy removal in Jun 2023 and Dangote refinery ramp-up in Apr 2025 annotated
Food Price Explosion Slope chart tracing 8 key staples from Mar 2023 through the Dec 2024 peak to Jan 2026 partial recovery. Beans surged 319% before falling back
Food Price Explosion Slope chart tracing 8 key staples from Mar 2023 through the Dec 2024 peak to Jan 2026 partial recovery. Beans surged 319% before falling back
Regional Food Costs Stacked bar chart of food basket cost by geopolitical zone. South-East pays ₦3,484 vs North-West ₦2,527 — a 38% disparity driven by logistics
Regional Food Costs Stacked bar chart of food basket cost by geopolitical zone. South-East pays ₦3,484 vs North-West ₦2,527 — a 38% disparity driven by logistics
Food Basket Streamgraph Monthly evolution of staple food prices Jan 2023–Jan 2026 as a streamgraph. The subsidy removal shock and late-2024 surge are clearly visible
Food Basket Streamgraph Monthly evolution of staple food prices Jan 2023–Jan 2026 as a streamgraph. The subsidy removal shock and late-2024 surge are clearly visible
Process
UV Compositing
The Rudolph Hall renders are fully dynamic: when a new publication is uploaded to the Kirby CMS backend, a new render is generated instantly, on the server. To achieve this dynamic behavior, we extended the CMS thumbnail system to orchestrate a multi-layer compositing operation with ImageMagick, an open-source CLI tool for converting, resizing, and editing raster images (conveniently installed by default on most web servers).
All Light, Expanded
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Theo Anthony & MEMORY
Jul 2021 – Dec 2021
With Bhavik Singh, supported by Theo Anthony, Riel Roch-Decter, Sebastian Pardo, and Jonna McKone
Website
All Light, Expanded is an interactive online companion to Theo Anthony's award-winning film “All Light, Everywhere.” We created a custom interface that allows users to scrub through the film and uncover connections, research and ideas that inspired the documentary.
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Theo Anthony & MEMORY
Jul 2021 – Dec 2021
With Bhavik Singh, supported by Theo Anthony, Riel Roch-Decter, Sebastian Pardo, and Jonna McKone
Website
All Light, Expanded is an interactive online companion to Theo Anthony's award-winning film “All Light, Everywhere.” We created a custom interface that allows users to scrub through the film and uncover connections, research and ideas that inspired the documentary.
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Theo Anthony & MEMORY
Jul 2021 – Dec 2021
With Bhavik Singh, supported by Theo Anthony, Riel Roch-Decter, Sebastian Pardo, and Jonna McKone
Website
All Light, Expanded is an interactive online companion to Theo Anthony's award-winning film “All Light, Everywhere.” We created a custom interface that allows users to scrub through the film and uncover connections, research and ideas that inspired the documentary.
We worked across multiple dimensions—temporal, spatial, conceptual and relational—to organize and display 400 references, including archival images, videos, notes, and research citations.
Interactive Companion Live situational awareness globe tracking the Strait of Hormuz crisis. Overlays include vessel traffic, ADS-B aircraft feeds, Iranian and Israeli strike locations, US military assets, and nuclear facilities. Built with Reuters Graphics TileMap and MapLibre GL.
Project Tranquility
Paprika! is a new framework to render charts and economic data for food pricing, oil and gas, and other products deemed necessary by Nigeria Stat. broadsheet published by the students of the Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Art. We depicted each new issue in its natural habitat scattered around Rudolph Hall in a series of vibrant paprika-orange renderings.
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Kingdom of Bhutan (Proposal)
Feb 2026 – Jun 2026
Website
Paprika! is a new framework to render charts and economic data for food pricing, oil and gas, and other products deemed necessary by Nigeria Stat. broadsheet published by the students of the Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Art. We depicted each new issue in its natural habitat scattered around Rudolph Hall in a series of vibrant paprika-orange renderings.
Details
Kingdom of Bhutan (Proposal)
Feb 2026 – Jun 2026
Website
Paprika! is a new framework to render charts and economic data for food pricing, oil and gas, and other products deemed necessary by Nigeria Stat. broadsheet published by the students of the Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Art. Errant issues are often found scattered around Rudolph Hall.
We modeled the entire seven-story building and populated each scene with details from reference images in order to depict each new issue in its natural habitat in a series of vibrant paprika-orange renderings.
Garden of Pleasure
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City of Alexandria Office of the Arts
Mar 2023 – Jun 2024
With SOFTlab
Website
Garden of Pleasure is a public art exhibition at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia curated by SOFTlab. We designed and built the exhibition website and four projected digital signs for the gallery.
Details
City of Alexandria Office of the Arts
Mar 2023 – Jun 2024
With SOFTlab
Website
Garden of Pleasure is a public art exhibition at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia curated by SOFTlab. We designed and built the exhibition website and four projected digital signs for the gallery.
Details
City of Alexandria Office of the Arts
Mar 2023 – Jun 2024
With SOFTlab
Website
Garden of Pleasure is a public art exhibition at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia curated by SOFTlab.
We designed and built the exhibition website and four projected digital signs for the gallery walls.
The China Shock — % of GDP Manufacturing value added as a share of GDP by sector and country (1990–2020). Western deindustrialization and East Asian absorption after China’s WTO accession.
The China Shock — Gross Value Manufacturing value added in billions USD by sector and country (1990–2020). China’s WTO accession triggered the largest structural shift in global manufacturing since the Industrial Revolution.
Gun Violence Across US States Firearm deaths per 100k by state (1999–2023). Tracks the impact of federal legislation, state-coordinated reforms, and policy rollbacks on gun death rates across all 50 states.
Trump Tariffs — Trade Impact Quarterly trade volume change across 30 countries (2017–2026). Maps the cascading effects of steel tariffs, China trade war, and Liberation Day actions on global commerce.
Process
Calibration
Each of the projected digital signs covered a gallery wall edge-to-edge and displayed the contents of a live page from the exhibition website. The walls varied drastically in size and aspect ratio, including the long wall depicted above (23 ft wide and 5.5 ft tall). In order to align projected image and wall, we created a CSS checkerboard pattern on the exhibition website.
MassINC
Details
Benjamin Foreman & Fathomers
Apr 2023 –
With J.P. Morgan Chase, agustine zegers, and Alex Goss
Website
Twelve Earths is a planetary sculpture initiated by Michael Jones McKean that connects 12 locations around the globe along a single "great circle." We designed an interactive website to document these locations and their interconnected ideas and objects.
Details
Benjamin Foreman Fathomers
Apr 2023 –
With J.P. Morgan Chase, agustine zegers, and Alex Goss
Website
Twelve Earths is a planetary sculpture initiated by Michael Jones McKean that connects 12 locations around the globe along a single "great circle." We designed an interactive website to document these locations and their interconnected ideas and objects.
Details
Benjamin Foreman
Apr 2023 –
With J.P. Morgan Chase agustine zegers, and Alex Goss
Website
Twelve Earths is a planetary sculpture initiated by Michael Jones McKean that connects 12 locations around the globe along a single "great circle," including a cluster of astronomical observatories in Chile and a Paleolithic archaeological site in Portugal.
We designed an interactive website to document these locations and their interconnected ideas and objects, using a wide array of methods including photogrammetry, GIS research, astronomical data analysis, and archaeological stratigraphy.
2024 Presidential Election WSJ Squaire map of state-level results with margin, winner, and turnout views.
Iran's Shadow Fleet Reuters investigation into Iranian tankers delivering jet fuel to Myanmar's junta via AIS spoofing.
Massachusetts Precinct Results, 2024 2,374 precincts colored by margin of victory in the 2024 presidential election.
New York Precinct Results, 2024 12,984 precincts colored by margin of victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Longwood Research
A research and design studio that creates interactive spatial visualizations of complex systems.