I have been experimenting with ways to make abstract scales easier to understand by anchoring them to things we already know.
Relative Age (age.mvz.cl) converts your age into different reference frames, including species, fictional worlds and alternative time systems. It works as a way to see how age feels depending on the context you choose.
Relative Distance (distance.mvz.cl) takes scales that are normally impossible to visualize, such as astronomical distances, evolutionary timelines or atomic sizes, and places them on real locations on Earth.
You select two points on the map, and the system recalculates everything proportionally. It gives a very grounded sense of where things would fall in the real world.
Both projects are simple personal experiments focused on translating abstract concepts into something spatial and familiar.
Links:
age.mvz.cl
distance.mvz.cl
Happy to answer questions or hear ideas for new scales to explore.
by cimocw
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Where or how you got the data (Source):Â
Most of data here is fairly simple and well-known, the only special part is how it’s presented.
The tool used to generate the visual (Tool):
Visual Studio Code+ Codex
I can’t be the only one who thought this was a NUKE map…
Looks interesting commenting to save
The Age one is pretty cool!
Could have rotated it and used non jersey landmarks that people actually know like central park and Columbia university!