Scale of Time

[ciphergoth]

A zooming view of all time, from the Big Bang to the Bomb. Ideas very welcome!

Comments

[ciphergoth]

That's part of the plan - the timing part is tricky though!

The other thing I want, and this is also tricky, is something to give a sense of scale. I could set a scale of, say, 1m=10Ma, and use something 1.375km long to show the length of the whole chart, and something .05mm long for the last 500 years. But that's much more work still, because I need to have a scale for every image.

[alexmc]

I was thinking of pictures presented in a different way. I was thinking of having pictures as large as possible with no worries about scale - but only have them on screen while the year in question is on screen.

(You'd then also highlight the year in question)

You'd only have time for a few events to be pictured, though.

Does that make sense?

[ciphergoth]

Yes, that's also what I have in mind - so there are two different kinds of pictures, one lot to do with events and the others to do with scale.