fredag den 9. januar 2009

Milky Way Transit Authority


Tænk hvis man kunne tage 'undergrunden' til en fjern stjerne ...
/Sik


Imagine taking the underground to a far away star ...
/Sik


Quote




Urban transit maps are wonderful tools: they are guides to traveling, they serve as mechanisms for distilling and abstracting a city down to a set of linkages and interconnections, and they are beautiful. The first 'modern' subway map is London's Tube Map, designed by Harry Beck. Since then, many cities have based their transit system map designs on its spare and elegant layout, such as BostonNew York, and Amsterdam.


In addition, these maps have been used to understand other, more idea-based, inter-relationships, such as modern music,creative and important people in historyweb trends,and even the locations of all the subways in the world.


Here, I have attempted to do the same thing for our galaxy, the Milky Way. [...]

Ingen kommentarer:

Send en kommentar