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This is an antique map showing what the world was like from the view of ancient people. Despite some inaccuracies of certain details, the overlook of the main continents is acceptable. What makes this map outstanding and attractive is that the painter opened up the sphere and arranged it into a two-dimensional picture which is decorated by the delicate painting as the background.
The function of the map goes beyond just to show direction; it is a fine art which can entertain its viewers as well.
This is a map which shows the global population density according to the colors of different regions. We could tell from this map that the main populations locate in Asia, Central Europe and the United states of east and west coasts. The colors on the map give its viewers a direct sense of how the populations are didtributed around the world. I think the popultaion density pretty much associates with many factors such as climate, economics topograghy and so on. For example, there are most desert areas in central America and western China, so the population in such areas is small. I conclude from this map that a single map contains various factors from which we can draw clues and relate to each other.
These two pictures are by Eric Fischer, the top of which visualizes the use of twitter and Flickr in the United States and the bottom of which around the world. The viewers can tell the social networking intensity from the brightness and darkness in the picture. The viewers could see, for example, lower Manhattan is filled with white, which is the relection of the popularity of both twitter and flickr there. What's intersting about th map is that it shows us a networking picture in a 3-dimentional way and that there is still big room for social-networking to grow. It did not take a long time for Fischer to make these pictures. He writes,“It’s a C program that runs through the photos/tweets in chronological order, plotting the earliest ones the most brightly and stepping the brightness down for points that don’t show up for the first time until later on.”
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