December 1, 2003
Graphical view of the Internet
Someone is out there tracing the routing of the Internet, and turning it into art.
"It started as a bet, but after I warmed up to the idea I found a lot of value in the project itself," Lyon writes on the project's homepage. He says his maps could provide a useful overview of the internet's structure and even reveal the effects of disruptions caused by real-world disasters. But more importantly, he says: "The project is art."
[...]The project uses a networking program called "traceroute". This records the network addresses that a data packet hops between as it travels towards a particular network host.
Some of the images are truly stunning and beautiful.
Posted by elkaim at December 1, 2003 4:13 PM