This visualization is based on the research for Pedro M Cruz's master thesis. He's interested in using scientific and statistical number-crunching and then displaying the data in visual ways that straddle the very thin line between art and science.
Tomorrow is Veteran's
Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day in much of the former British Empire. When I was a child people wore little red paper poppies in remembrance of the soldiers who served in World War I, especially, as well as later wars. I very much associate this day, and of course the custom of wearing poppies, with the poem "In Flanders Fields" by Canadian ArmyLieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD.In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
French filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene used a complex color film process and post processing technology to capture these films of London in 1927, restored by London's Screen Archive.
