Comments on: Illustrating history

Illustrating history

talos — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:07:45 -0800

Mapping History: The Darkwing Atlas Project "The Project has been designed to provide interactive and animated representations of fundamental historical problems and/or illustrations of historical events, developments, and dynamics." All sorts of simple historical animated and static maps as well as photos and images from Greek and Phoenician expansions, to the spread of Slavery in the American South 1790-1860 and christian graffiti from the Roman catacombs.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:17:21 -0800

Hey! This is really kind of cool! Great link - thanks!

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:08:30 -0800

Yeah very cool. Maps, history and flash, great combo.

By: Razzle Bathbone

Razzle Bathbone — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:19:57 -0800

Just what I needed as an example for a project. I just wish the maps were a bit bigger.

By: woil

woil — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:43:53 -0800

For the curious, the name *darkwing* is the name of the server that the project is on. It is also a reference to the disney charachter of the same name. As the UofO mascot is a Duck, many of their servers have duck related names. After they burned through those - many of which are now offline - they moved onto more difficult references such as *gladstone* which is a disney publisher. Randoma triva fact via my head. :)

By: zpousman

zpousman — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:06:49 -0800

WHAT THE FUCK? INTERFACE content good, UI bad

By: plep

plep — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:24:50 -0800

[this is good]