Check out this interactive map of subway ridership in New York City from 1905-2006.
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Here and there: Horizonless projections of Manhattan
Visualizing sorting
Aldo Cortesi has created some nice visualizations of sorting algorithms:
A Geometric Glagolitic Sans
Check out Kalin Varbanov‘s Glagolitic Alphabet Anatomy, a geometric, sans-serif re-imagining of Glagolitic, one of the oldest Slavic alphabets.
Another genetic map
Another genetic map of Europe. It won’t be long before we can pinpoint a person’s ancestry down to an individual village using science like this.
Spiros in Inkscape
Inkscape 0.47 and later will support curve editing via Raph Levien’s vastly superior Spiro curves:
I round-tripped through FontForge when I drew the Seal of Rassilon for a recent t-shirt design, just so I could use spiros to do it:
Achieving nearly perfectly tangent and parallel curves using spiros is trivial, compared the the fragile finickiness of Béziers.
Portrait of the propeller as a series of milliseconds
Gratuitous staircases
Now a proud contributor to Stair Porn, the best picture blog ever.
Speaking of picture blogs, does anybody out there in internet-land have an invite to FFFFound.com that they’d be willing to give me (matt dash blog at theory dot org)?
Complexity doesn’t have to be ugly
Great diagram of Debian’s apt packaging system. It’s also a good example of the aesthetic shortcomings of automatic graph drawing tools like graphviz. It would be a good candidate for redesign by a skilled graphic designer.