A handy reference.

Been awhile since BLDGBLOG showed up here, and this has been on my mind for the last month or so.

McElhinney went on to build his own full-scale “switching labyrinth” near London’s Euston Station. Participants in this experiment “animated” McElhinney’s switching labyrinth by way of “a stepper motor and slide mechanism” that, together, were “able to periodically shift, ‘switching’ openings to offer alternative entrance and exit paths.”

After watching all this unfold, McElhinney suggested that further research along these lines could help to reveal architectural moments at which there is an “emergence of labyrinthine, or familiar, spatialities within an unknown or changing maze framework.”

The labyrinthine caverns of Zork and the non-visual structure of Infocom games are mentioned, and I would love to see a visualization comparing human traversals of real-world maze-like spaces and navigations of those same spaces using virtual interfaces– both text-based and those rendered with state of the art first-person-shooter engines.

Dependency graph of the Haskell core library created by Don Stewart’s cabalgraph.

The timeline of the Gospel of Mark, from the collection of BibleDiagrams.com. See also: the number of concubines and daggers in the houses of Saul and David.

Who else thinks Feltron should give these a makeover in a very special SXSW panel?

Interesting radial visualization contrasting the word counts of “hope” and “desire” in news articles using the New York Times Article Search API. More visualizations from the API can be found here.

A flowchart that answers the question of “What Would Tufte Do?”

NYTE: Not sure if we linked this before, but this MIT SENSEable City Lab research project was on exhibit at the MOMA earlier this year. It seeks to visualize the communications and information exchange occurring between NYC and the rest of the world, using long distance telephony and IP data statistics.

Enjoying this simple NYTimes visualization of current moods surrounding the election, colorized based on candidate affiliation.

In honor of election day, an isotype chart from Otto Neurath’s Modern Man in the Making.

It’s like Spore for your inbox.