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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Contents: Interactive Islands of Mankind Interactive Islands of Mankind Apr 16, 2012 01:25 am  •  Permalink Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an interactive version of William Bunge's The Continents and Islands of Mankind. The above shows areas in the world where there are at least 15 people per square mile. In the interactive, a slider lets you shift that number up to 500 where only a few spots in the world remain. An interesting thing about this map is that each layer is contained in one 23,000 pixel tall spritesheet to reduce load time. An uninteresting thing is that my workflow was to export black and white density images from QGIS (which I've been working with more lately), generalize in Illustrator, export each slice and then stitch them together into one image with ImageMagick. I grabbed the population data from here. [via Derek Watkins] Sponsored by: More to read: Gender wage gap, how much less women make than men A century of ocean shipping animated Too many axes How recruiters look at your resume How businesses approach infographics  follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 FlowingData, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on FlowingData. Our mailing address is: FlowingData PO Box 3381 Livermore, CA 94550 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences