homunculus
3 Maps & A Homunculus
I love maps. I love data visualisation. So this sort of thing is right up my street. The worldmapper population atlas, show maps of countries of the world with parts of the map scaled by their population density.
Ireland for example look like this:
The UK looks like this:
And the US looks like this:
I think things like this have been around for a while, but they’re always interesting. Sort of like a map homunculus, a person where the external body parts represent the internal system. This homunculus shows the the body parts scaled by the size of the sensory area of the brain devoted to them.
