architectural dialogue
Ruminations on architecture, from Ken Allinson
Pigeon flight over Beastly London …
I thought someone might like this (courtesy of UCL, Centre For Advanced Spatial Analysis):
Source code: https://github.com/jawj/pigeonsim
And here’s another, this time using the notion of city flows as the blood streams of a pulsing beast …It depicts the London Underground network as a set of arteries that thicken as passenger volumes passing through the network increase.
Here is another mapping of traffic flows (you will find you need full screen to see anything much):
This is a nice one showing Boris Bike activity (click on ‘animation’ when the page opens, then on ‘start animation’)
http://bikes.oobrien.com/?city=london
And how about Tokyo growth in terms of slime mould?