Despite Barilla’s politics, this is an amazing infographic of pasta – not entirely sure who made it, but I believe it was designed by Giuseppe Venturini in the mid-20th century
Via: Silvio Lorusso
Approach Plate
An example of an “Approach Plate“, a diagram for pilots entering different airports: here NYC La Guardia’s runway #22.
Diagrams for every airport available online from the FAA, via Wikipedia, via Wired.
Every iPhone Screen Ever Sold
If every iPhone screen ever sold were combined: 5,059 feet tall and 2,846 feet wide (via Wired/Stupid Calculation)
Human Genome Random Walk
Random walk using part of the first chromosome of the human genome (top image is the first 10k data points, bottom is the first 20k).
Ruleset:
- A = up, T = right, C = down, G = left
- Start in center
- If position walks offscreen, wrap around the other side
- Color is mapped from very light gray at the start to black at the end (layering the image to show time – looks surprisingly like marble)
Made as a possible level-generator.
Multilingual Unicode Plane
Human Chromosome #1
The entire human chromosome #1, with A, C, T, and G color coded and rendered as individual pixels. Created with Processing using data via Project Gutenberg.
Simulated Particle Collisions
Simulated particle collisions within CERN, via Wired.
Color Grouping
Some kind of patent on color grouping, via FreePatentsOnline.
Crop Visualization from the 1960s
Video still of crop visualization of barley and wheat from satellite imagery – created by NASA in the 1960s!
Selections from “Snowflakes” (1863)
Illustrations from “Snowflakes: A Chapter from the Book of Nature”, published in 1863. See also Wilsom Bentley’s snow crystal photographs on Wikimedia Commons.
Via: Public Domain Review