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Atlas of Cyberspaces

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-look-at dept.

davepeck writes "The Atlas Of Cyberspaces is an interesting site containing a number of beautiful Internet and WWW visualizations, as well as links to the projects that generated them. " We've mentioned similiar pages in the past, but this one interests me because it does technical visualizations (like xtraceroute and similiar apps) as well as artistic ones (where it shows things like Tron and The Matrix).

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  1. So much for the distinction by konstant · · Score: 2

    between "visual" brains and "mathematical" brains. At least when it comes to programmers. Look at the fascination these images evoke in slashdotters... people who've been informed all their lives that they are "left-brained" and "technical" people, who would do best to leave art to the gifted.

    My feeling has always been that visualization is an indispensible part of technology. How can you understand load balancing without having a feel for the way the net looks? How can you understand a select or a try instruction without picturing a cascade of logic? Is it possible to understand the TCP/IP protocol without one of those helpful flow charts?

    Hey folks, maybe awe and love for technology is a lot more "right-brained" than it appears at first glance. Could just be that we are well rounded individuals, after all.

    -konstant

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  2. Partial repeat. by technos · · Score: 3

    I discover this site a while back; Someone posted it to a thread on 'mapping the internet'. While most of the images are startlingly beautiful, the other thing that struck me about the attempts to 'map' also looked organic. One would normally assume that a network would look, well, mechanical, but I saw no real mechanism behind them. Take the map of the Mbone: It could be mistaken for a 2-d rendering of, say, bacterial growth vectors. Mabye saying 'the internet has a life of its own' has a wee bit more validity than anyone thought...

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  3. I have to know by jem · · Score: 2

    I have to know why /.'s icon for the Internet looks like an over simplified Token Ring network diagram.

    Thanks.