This is mainly an experimentation with soft bodies using toxi’s verlet springs. The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline.
More on that project can be found here.
Posts Tagged ‘Europe’
Visualization of The Decline of European Empires
William Wallace: Does Britain Have a European Policy?
A lecture by William Wallace at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin on “Britain’s complicated relationships with its European neighbours and with the EU“:
Quotes of the week (VIII)
Foreign Policy:
The Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said During a U.N. Speech
David Mitchell:
If academic endeavour had always been vetted in advance for practicality, we wouldn’t have the aeroplane or the iPhone, just a better mammoth trap.
Richard Laming
It is ironic that the people who complain most about the complexity of the treaty are the [...]
Quotes of the Week (VII)
… ok, “week” as in “last 12 weeks”… and as you can see a rather short and subjective list…
Neil MacFarlane
We may be living post-historically. Russia is not.
Russia Today
Opposition candidates will get the right to lose elections.
Mark Danner
If Everybody Knew, Who’s To Blame?
Timothy Garton Ash
Europe is nice, boring and irrelevant. In many ways this is a [...]
Quotes of the week (V)
Just a reminder: there were actually European Parliament elections last week…
Francisco G. Basterra (El Pais)
Global Vote, local mindset.
Lykke Friis
The EU elections are like a European soccer championship played in each national league with aggregated results.
Evenimentul Zilei
Send in the Clowns.
NikOs
To the 57% of Europeans: Not voting and at the same time speaking about a [...]
Vote for eurotopics!
One of my favorite European websites/online news services – eurotopics – is nominated for a Grimme Online Award – the most prestigious online award in Germany! You can vote here for eurotopics (just click on “Stimme abgeben”) until 21.6.2009. The award is rather symbolic but the ceremony always generates quite some media attention – and [...]
The “Festival of Europe”: efficient communication or just a colourful marketplace?
Today it’s the 9th of May, Europe day. Like every year, celebrations are organised, with various intensities, throughout Europe. Of course, the main festivities are held in Brussels, where the European institutions open their doors to the public. Having attended the event for the last three years as a visitor (and enthusiastic collector of pens [...]
The Union of Subsidized Farmers
OK it is a couple of months old but I have not seen it yet… ArtWerks perception of Europe and the neighborhood in January 2009. (via €urowonk) Actually quite interesting how some issues disappear within a couple of months or does anyone still remember the Turkey/Youtube problem? Iceland would certainly associated with something else than [...]
Bloggingportal.eu launched!
Finally! We launched Bloggingportal.eu! The new place to read EU blogs and keep yourself updated on the EU blogosphere.
We have been working on it for almost one year in our free time. At the moment we are aggregating almost 300 blogs and we are publishing a daily editors choice selection! Check it out!
It is [...]
