See Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons Visualized in Colorfully Animated Scores

Music is commonly described as essentially the most summary of all the humanities, and arguably the least visu­al as properly. However these qual­i­ties, which appear so primary to the character of the shape, have been chal­lenged for not less than three cen­turies, not least by com­posers them­selves. Take Anto­nio Vival­di, whose Le quat­tro sta­gioni, or…

The Roads of Historical Rome Visualized within the Type of Fashionable Subway Maps

Sasha Tru­wager­skoy, for­mer­ly an beneath­grad at U. Chica­go, has cre­at­ed a “sub­way-style dia­gram of the key Roman roads, primarily based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.” Draw­ing on Stanford’s ORBIS mod­el, The Pela­gios Mission, and the Anto­9 Itin­er­ary, Tru­wager­skoy’s map com­bines well-known his­toric roads, just like the Through Appia, with much less­er-known ones (in somes cas­es…