{"id":16154,"date":"2015-03-19T12:26:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=16154"},"modified":"2015-03-19T12:26:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:26:59","slug":"a-day-on-londons-underground-animated-in-a-fascinating-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-day-on-londons-underground-animated-in-a-fascinating-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A day on London’s Underground animated in a fascinating video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m loving this clever animation that\u00a0visualises passenger traffic on the London Underground\u00a0across the course of a day.<\/p>\n

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\"underground-mapping\"<\/p>\n

Compiled from 562,145 journeys on the London Underground network, using a 5% sample of Oyster-card journeys during a week in 2009, the video shows the sleepy start to the day with early birds catching the first trains.<\/p>\n

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As the day wears on and the rush hour approaches, the lines come to life, with the visualisation\u00a0predicting an individual’s route across the capital via\u00a0a\u00a0custom written journey planner.<\/p>\n

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The animation is the work of tech wizard\u00a0Will Gallia<\/a>, who explains that\u00a0the journey planner and route finder were both written in Python and the visualisation was created using C++ with openFrameworks and GLSL for the position computation.<\/p>\n

I’ll pretend that I know exactly what that means.<\/p>\n