The Book of Circles

A unique compendium of 300+ images covering humanity's long-lasting obsession with all things circular. By @mslima @papress

[Manuel Lima @mslima]

Latest Chinese version of the @bookofcircles 🎉🎊🥳

#design #history #circles #data #diagrams #visualization #dataviz #datavisualization #charts #maps #cartography #information

[Matthew Hughes @tasty_plots]

Genuary day 3 - Space, made some generative planets using #blender.
See in 4000*4000 on #hicetnunc
(https://t.co/ZVfK6MdHhd, https://t.co/zPPVJ17UAl, https://t.co/6v19TaSDF4, https://t.co/sCwp9xA3pm)
#genuary2022 #b3d #generativeart

[Matthew Hughes @tasty_plots]

Celestial Iris #68
https://t.co/9C35TgZzvb
#fxhash #CleanNFT #tezosnft

[Robert Smith @NebraskaSower]

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"...Hartley Burr Alexander’s use of symbolism at the capitol culminates in the seven-story rotunda dome, where Hildreth Meière represented eight winged virtues that together comprise the Virtues of the State..." @HildrethMeiere

https://t.co/pzRRQ9SUYT

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The experimental work of generative artist Matthew Hughes (@tasty_plots) is quite enticing. Here are some of his planet pieces.

[Manuel Lima @mslima]

One of my favorite Renaissance manuscripts is Perspectiva Corporum Regularium by German artist, goldsmith & engraver Wenzel Jamnitzer. Published in 1568, the manuscript is a study of how the five platonic solids could be truncated, stellated, and faceted to produce 24 variations.

[Manuel Lima @mslima]

Today's #convergentpatterns bring us a though-provoking juxtaposition between two taxonomies, respectively of coal hole covers and plastic coffee lids.

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Oil Spill (2016) is Fabian Oefner's exploration of Iridescence. Oefner poured water into a black reservoir. With the aid of a syringe, he then added small drops of oil onto the water surface. As oil expanded it formed all sorts of evocative, colorful structures.

[Manuel Lima @mslima]

The first #convergentpatterns trio is here. I hope you enjoy this provocative juxtaposition. This particular visual pattern was one of 21 featured in the #bookofcircles. It's a great example of visual convergence across different fields.

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👉 (Right): Color Chart by EDIT (2015). Visualization depicting the fall 2015 season in fashion through a breakdown of all colors from each garment shown during Fashion Week in London, Milan, Paris, and New York.

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Today's #convergentpatterns brings us an interesting juxtaposition of sunburst diagrams, contrasting varieties of cheese and garment colors in fashion.

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👈 (Left): The Charted Cheese Wheel by Pop Chart Lab (2013). A diagram of sixty-five popular cheese varieties, grouped by their texture (soft, semi-soft, semi-hard, hard) and producing animal (cow, sheep, goat, buffalo). Cow cheeses constitute the large majority.

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It was part of his argument that the Earth must have originated in the biblical Great Flood; God would have created the world in a perfect sphere, and only a flood could have left it in such a deformed shape. California appears as an island off the coast of North America.

[The Book of Circles @bookofcircles]

Created by British theologian Thomas Burnet in 1964, this is an unusual map that shows the world as if the oceans did not exist - the entire planet devoid of water.

#mapping #cartography #globe #oceans #flood

[Manuel Lima @mslima]

How do you flatten a sphere? For centuries, mapmakers have agonized over how to accurately display our #planet in 2D.

Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how #maps can work has resulted in a #design that might be the most accurate flat map ever made.

https://t.co/44PxtZlSNv

[Matthew Hughes @tasty_plots]

@creativecodeart Been considering getting involved with nfts, although concerned about the energy usage. It does seem like platforms are working towards fixing that though. Here are some cool planets that might make good nfts.

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👈 (left) Dome of the Cathedral of Zamora, Spain ca. 1151–74. Photograph by David Stephenson, from Visions of Heaven.

👉 (right) Victorian lithograph of a type of starfish called "Asteria echinites", by Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux (1821).

#convergentpatterns #human #nature

[Chandra Observatory @chandraxray]

Supernova remnant 0519-69.0 was left behind after a massive #star exploded in a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. About 30 light years across, this expanding shell of debris contains multimillion degree gas that glows brightly in X-ray light.

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👉 (right) A World of Languages (2015) by Alberto Lucas López. A chart of the major 23 languages used in the world today. Each language cell is sized according to number of native speakers and subdivided into the countries in which the language is spoken. 3/3

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Today's #convergentpatterns brings us two captivating Voronoi treemaps. 1/3

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👈 (left) The World’s Economy Divided by Area (2015) by https://t.co/tSFwZqHcLF. A Voronoi diagram representing the size of various countries’ economies in terms of GDP. Each country is divided into 3 sectors: services (dark), industrial (mid tone), and agricultural (light). 2/3