Monday, October 09, 2006

mapimation 1.2

here is the next iteration of the mapimation. i have been working on creating a trail that marks the path that the hops take. the method that i used is extremely time consuming and not really feasible at a large scale unless i can create a macro to do it for me.



also, here is a link to my data worksheet.

i plan to add topography to the countries based on the location of the most important internet routers. the degree of the deformation of the land caused by these routers will correlate to their influence in the internet. here is a rough draft:

3 comments:

Nathan Dicks said...

Nice research and documentation. It's cool to see a visualization of something so intangible.

Katy Seaman said...

it's interesting to see how information traverses the globe through the internet, especially with your study grounded in language. i'm interested to see how time becomes a factor within your mapping.

your thorough documentation is sure to pay off!

Vinnie said...

It seems like you have A LOT of information to filter. The images you have produced so far are nice and I'd like to see what type of image is produced when all of your information is plugged in. Maybe when all of these arcs have been generated you can use that map as an underlay to progress further.