Peter Saville's pattern for the sleeve of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album is 1 of the some loved examples of music comprehend art. The white on dark lines of the album comprehend were inspired yesteryear an icon of radio pulsar waves.
This iconic pattern has at 1 time give-up the ghost 1 of the biggest influences on map design. Mapbox are the latest cartographers to accept inspiration from Peter Saville's design. San Francisco Terrain visualizes the topography as well as contours of San Francisco amongst pinnacle existence shown on the map yesteryear a serial of dark lines on a white background.
Elevation Lines is a Leaflet map which too takes inspiration from the Unknown Pleasures album inwards its design. The map too visualizes elevation information every 2nd a serial of vertical lines, presenting a global sentiment of elevation data. With Elevation Lines yous tin fifty-fifty click on the map to add together a profile path betwixt whatever ii points.
This Worldwide Population map too owes pattern inspiration to Joy Division's iconic album cover. The map uses d3.js to exercise a map of the the world which represents population density yesteryear latitude.
The map uses population information from NASA. You tin select to sentiment the population densities for a unwrap of dissimilar years, which agency that yous tin sentiment how the global population has changed over the final 20 years. The map was inspired yesteryear James Cheshire’s Population Lines. If yous honour this population visualization every 2nd beautiful every 2nd I exercise yous tin purchase prints of James' map from his website.
