Organic Wine Additives Visualization
A visualization designed to make one thing viscerally obvious: just how many chemical additives can legally go into a bottle of organic wine. Toggle each additive category individually from the sidebar and watch hexagonal pieces drop into a wineglass-shaped bowl using real-time physics. The friction of toggling each group one by one is intentional. So is the chaos when you select them all.
Most consumers assume "organic" means minimal intervention. This tool does not argue for or against that. It just shows the list, and lets the volume speak for itself.
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Physics as data encoding
Instead of encoding quantity as length (bar chart) or area (treemap), this visualization encodes it as physical accumulation. You watch the data pour in. Each additive is a hexagonal rigid body with mass, friction, and restitution. They fall under gravity, collide with each other, and settle into a parabolic bowl made of 14 angled static segments shaped like a wineglass. Mouse dragging is supported for interacting with individual pieces.
Data source
The additive catalog is sourced from Perdomini-IOC, an Italian oenological products supplier. It covers 27 categories and over 150 individual additives across the full organic winemaking process, from yeast nutrition and fermentation through fining, stabilization, and bottling.
Responsive scaling
The wineglass bowl shape is a thematic nod to the subject matter. As the viewport changes, pieces shrink and reposition rather than overflowing, keeping the visualization usable at different screen sizes.