Image courtesy of http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/
An interesting new take on the London Undeground map is Tom Carden's processing application that allows the user to interact with the map and select a station. As he or she does this the map animates, expands and contracts depending on how long it takes to get to each from station to station. To emphasise this Carden displays the tube map in a geographical layout and uses shaded zones to depict every ten minutes of travel. This results in a very effective way of displaying time using shapes and animation.
This to me is intruiging as it like Harry Becks original uses the most up to date technology to depict visually the different journey times and works much more effectivily than simply showing a table of destinations and times. It will be important as I progress through the project that I keep looking for new ways for depicting previously static text based information effectivily in the digital medium, to influence my own ideas.
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