Peter Saville's pattern for the sleeve of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album is i of the virtually iconic examples of encompass art. The white on dark lines of the album encompass are based on an icon of radio pulsar waves.
Elevation Lines is a Leaflet map which takes inspiration from the Unknown Pleasures album inwards its design. The map visualizes global superlative information equally a serial of vertical lines. You tin fifty-fifty click on the map to add together a profile path betwixt whatever ii points.
This Worldwide Population map likewise owes pattern inspiration to Joy Division's iconic album cover. The map uses d3.js to practice a map of the globe which represents population density yesteryear latitude.
The map uses population information from NASA. You tin select to stance the population densities for a discover of dissimilar years, which agency that you lot tin stance how the global population has changed over the final xx years. The map was inspired yesteryear James Cheshire’s Population Lines. If you lot honor this population visualization equally beautiful equally I practice you lot tin purchase prints of James' map from his website.
