A Visual Exploration of Complex Networks by Edit Staff Posted July 24, 2006 12:37 AM
Complexity is everywhere. It's a structural and organizational principle that reaches almost every field imaginable, from genetics and social networks to food webs and stock markets. Contemporary scientific and technological accomplishmentsincluding mapping the human genome, decoding neural networks and opening up the ocean to explorationhave seen our ability to generate and acquire information outpace our ability to make sense of it. With a surfeit of facts and few ways to synthesize them, "meaningful information" quickly becomes an oxymoron. As our cultural artifacts are increasingly measured in gigabytes and terabytes, organizing, sorting and displaying information in an efficient way is crucial to advancing knowledge. From the incredibly vast (the history of science) to the very small (protein complexes), science's visual dialect renders it both more dynamic and more innovative. Collected here are a few of the many intriguing, and often beautiful, images that illustrate how the whole is more than the sum of its parts. < - > http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/07/look_around_you.php _______________________________________________ Infowarrior mailing list [email protected] https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior
