Kanada Kev Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Pedro M. Cruz, a graduate student in information visualization and interaction design, created this time-elapsed representation of the rise and decline of the British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish overseas empires from 1800 to 2000. He writes: The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. I chose the maritime empires because of their more abrupt and obtuse evolution as the visual emphasis is on their decline. The first idea to represent a territory independence was a mitosis like split — it’s harder to implement than it looks. Each shape tends to retain an area that’s directly proportional to the extent of the occupied territory on a specific year. The datasource is mostly our beloved wikipedia. The split of a territory is often the result of an extent process and it had to be visualized on a specific year. So I chose to pick the dates where it was perceived a de facto independence (e.g. the most of independence declarations prior to the new state’s recognition). Dominions of an empire, were considered part of that empire and thus not independent. Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 That is some pretty fucking cool shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgnor Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 That is super cool... but they always exclude Haiti.That makes me sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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