A visualization of the decline of the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese maritime empires, created by Pedro M Cruz “with soft bodies using toxi’s verlet springs”. HT to @ckreutz via @kabissa.
It was a joy to watch the crescendo of exploding bodies in the 1960s. More than 30 “blobs of independence” (20 of them African) floating across the screen as 1960 turned into 1964. The unique manner in which the data is displayed reminds me of Hans Rosling’s famous TED talks.
