Sunday, October 31, 2021

Joy Partition Inspired Maps


Peter Saville's pattern for the sleeve of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album is ane of the near iconic examples of encompass art. The white on dark lines of the album encompass are based on an picture of radio pulsar waves.

Elevation Lines is a Leaflet map which takes inspiration from the Unknown Pleasures album inwards its design. The map visualizes global tiptop information every moment a serial of vertical lines. You tin fifty-fifty click on the map to add together a profile path betwixt whatever ii points.


This Worldwide Population map in addition to owes pattern inspiration to Joy Division's iconic album cover. The map uses d3.js to practice a map of the globe which represents population density yesteryear latitude.

The map uses population information from NASA. You tin select to sentiment the population densities for a lay out of unlike years, which agency that you lot tin sentiment how the global population has changed over the concluding xx years. The map was inspired yesteryear James Cheshire’s Population Lines. If you lot honour this population visualization every moment beautiful every moment I practice you lot tin purchase prints of James' map from his website.

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