Thursday, January 08, 2009
Milky Way Transit Authority
(via) Behold Samuel Arbesman's map of the Milky Way in the style of a transit map.
He explains the project thusly:
He explains the project thusly:
I was re-reading Carl Sagan's novel Contact recently, essentially a series of arguments about SETI wrapped into a story, and he alludes to some sort of cosmic Grand Central Station. That, coupled with my longtime interest in transit maps, got me thinking about all of this.
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You are the third person in two days to link to it. I must be in the right circles...
It is very cool, though. I'd love to use this motif for a number of projects beyond my graphic ability...
It is very cool, though. I'd love to use this motif for a number of projects beyond my graphic ability...
I'm a sucker for this kind of thing, too. Have you seen Jon Coulthart's transit map of the Sephiroth?
This is brilliant and I have passed it along to Moshe Feder's Third Level discussion group.
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