Dynamical maps
Uncategorized — By Dmitry Podolsky on May 5, 2009 at 10:29 am
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Dmitry Podolsky has got his PhD from Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He currently works as postdoc at Case Western Reserve University. He is also one of the editors of NEQNET.
… in continuation to the Sunday’s post about dynamical visualization – sorry, cannot wait before the next Sunday to post offtopic 
Just discovered another beautiful tool for a curious mind via Sergey Schegloff – press “Play” and enjoy the movie about the history of religions:
As it seems, Islam was always a very serious player with strong base, while Christianity is more like a recent fashion. In order to change this impression, maybe the density of population should be taken into account.
More interesting maps (“March of Democracy” etc.) can be found on the “Maps of war” website.
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That map makes the Earth look like a giant petri dish whith competing bacteria colonies eventually using up all the food supply. What happens next? Do they start eating each other? Do they evolve?
The analogy is not that random as one may think
Say, the growth of population (whether mankind or bacteria colony) is described well by a discretized Fokker-Planck equation. If so, asymptotically the distribution becomes stationary.
Judaism shouldn’t behave like that, it should work more like little scattered moving centers after diaspora.
And this animation should follow the pattern of others in the site, that is, include extinct empirers/religions, and not just the present day religions. I really missed roman/greek religions and zoroastrism. Great eastern philosophies that had a ritualistic/religious conotation, like confucionsim and taohism were missing.
Surely, this animation is not good as the others…
The poster above was me.
Dear Daniel,
I am sure they don’t pretend that the map is precise, but what, I think, it shows correctly is relative size of areals for different religions.
Cheers,
Dmitry.
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