As to how they're doing it, just a few html tables holding a single .gif for each region. But mouseovers show the number of an individual person in a tooltip. An image map for that would be huge, so I assume they're calculating it somehow in Javascript from x/y position Didn't look further.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Arlo Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > When/if we get ubiquitous volumetric displays, the webpage could be a > 1000-person-wide cube; if the voxels-per-inch-cube-edge resolution was the > same as the current <http://www.7billionworld.com/howbig.php> pixels-per-inch > resolution<http://www.7billionworld.com/counting.php#How_many_people_are_there_on_every_row_and_every_column%2A>, > the hypothetical cube would still be 6.25 meters to a side. > -Arlo James Barnes > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com>
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