Jim Bumgardner’s Time Graphs

Our friend Jim Bumgardner has been creating some lovely graphs using data mined from Flickr. This one is titled ‘Solstice to Solstice”:
To build this graph I collected about 40,000 thumbnails of photos that have been tagged “Sunset”.
I positioned each thumbnail horizontally according to the day it was taken, and vertically according to the hour it was taken.
By making each photo translucent, I created a “hot spot” which shows when the most photos were taken, each day of the past year.
The bright band shows the approximate time of sunset for each day for most of the photographers (who are in the northern hemisphere). You can see that as the year progresses, the time of the sunset changes.
* More of Bumgardner’s time graphs.
* Another time graph: the Salyut 6 Cyclogram
* Bumgardner’s Athanasius Kircher Coverpop
* Bumgardner’s reconstruction of Kircher’s Mathematical Organ
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