Monday, November 23, 2009

Visualizing the Decline of Empires



This is mainly an experimentation with soft bodies using toxi's verlet springs.
The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline.

More on that project mondeguinho.com/master/visual-experiment ations/visualizing-empires
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2 comments:

  1. feddabonn6:47 PM

    thanks for posting this jim. i've been trying to work on a way to visualise a bunch of cultural motifs, and while i'm not sure how yet, this helps!

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  2. James Barrett7:50 PM

    I'm glad. I am considering using it in teaching. Really get across the scale of the British Empire project, what a huge, totalizing thing it was.

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