This compelling map, brought to public attention again by Edward Tufte, was drawn by French engineer Charles Joseph Minard to depict the crushing defeat of Napoleon's army as it first marched on and then retreated from Moscow in the winter of 1812-13. The combination of human drama, multivariate information, and minimal extraneous data all enhance its effect. As Tufte notes, "It may be the best statistical graphic ever drawn."
― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Millennium Simulation. Shows simulated present day distribution of dark matter in an area around 1/10 the size of the observable universe. Bright regions = denser. Turns out you get filaments and pancake structures. Amazing videos on the website, e.g. "During the two minutes of the movie, we travel a distance for which light would need more than 2.4 billion years."
― caek (caek), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
http://infosthetics.com/
― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
oh MAN.
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link
okay, infosthetics.com, i love you.
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
IF YOU POST ANYTHING I'VE SEEN ON A BLOG, YOU GONNA GET SHOT.
― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.fractalus.com/steve/stuff/ipmap/con.jpg
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/images/largepng/65.png
Refined Petroleum Imports
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/images/largepng/66.png
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Crimea River (Mark C), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Secret Map of the Elders of Zion
― mayhaps (mayhaps), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― literalisp (literalisp), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― literalisp (literalisp), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. Madness, the first movement, opens with a wildly swarming mass of around 1,500 particles, emanating from the center of the screen and then careening outwards, bouncing off walls and reacting to the behavior of the mouse. Each particle represents a single feeling, posted by a single individual. The color of each particle corresponds to the tone of the feeling inside – happy positive feelings are bright yellow, sad negative feelings are dark blue, angry feelings are bright red, calm feelings are pale green, and so on.
[warning: Java]
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 3 June 2006 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Saturday, 3 June 2006 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
NASA moonwalks, to the scale of a football pitch:
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/a11vsfootball.gif?w=700
full size
― ledge, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
from http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ which has many other strange and beautiful maps.
― ledge, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
(correction, just the apollo 11 moonwalk)
― ledge, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Those are great. Thanks for the link.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.bytelevel.com/map/images/ccTLD_600b.jpg
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Thursday, 25 December 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thegardengeeks.com/home/images/stories/hardiness_map607x302.jpg
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Thursday, 22 October 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Maps season starts tonight on bbc4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/beautyofmaps/index.shtml
"Map expert Professor Jerry Brotton uncovers how maps aren't simply about getting from A to B, but are revealing snapshots of defining moments in history and tools of political power and persuasion"
seems to be a couple of series of things on:
Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession (3 parts) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s5m7wThe Beauty Of Maps (4 parts) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s2w83
― koogs, Sunday, 18 April 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
cool imo. wish i could watch that
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The series is all over t0rr3ntland if anyone is interested.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
The all new 2010 California Earthquake Fault Map is here!
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
https://natgeoeducationblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/mappingminute-doggerland-large.jpgA record of the geological Brexit from the last glacial phase to the current Holocene one. I'm presuming places like Howick and Goldcliff were very important 16000 years ago!
― calzino, Monday, 24 July 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link