[HN Gopher] Making of the New York and Erie Railroad Organizatio...
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       Making of the New York and Erie Railroad Organizational Diagram
        
       Author : tobr
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2025-03-29 17:32 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | dave333 wrote:
       | This illustration is a classic in the style of Tufte's
       | Envisioning Information although I don't remember seeing it in
       | his books. But given the current climate of DOGE cuts and Musk's
       | demand for email reports of what each gov employee did last week
       | it occurs that a public online org chart of the entire non-
       | classified Federal Government with weekly entries made by all
       | employees would be a huge win and would justify the level of
       | spending.
        
       | npunt wrote:
       | Wow gorgeous vis and the restorer put in a ton of work to make it
       | a bit of their own especially with the color variants. Kudos to
       | them! Probably going to buy this.
       | 
       | As a whole the piece is amazing, but when zooming in on the
       | details, the digital version kinda feels lifeless with too-
       | straight lines and identical clipart. I think what gets lost in
       | this kind of digital recreation are some of the stuff I love most
       | from old maps: the subtle variations introduced from printing,
       | the hand-carved lines in the hatching not being perfectly
       | straight, the moments of bespoke difference that no standardized
       | font or clipart captures.
       | 
       | The restored version is not quite the same, and that's fine
       | especially since those details are hard to see at a glance. It's
       | beautiful overall. I wonder though if we can use some of our
       | newer image generation techniques to re-introduce the wonderful
       | subtleties of the print version.
        
       | photonthug wrote:
       | Since I almost skipped over it.. the rest of this stuff is also
       | very good ( https://www.c82.net/work/). There's an adaptation of
       | Euclid here: https://www.c82.net/work/?id=372
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       | There's more color and I don't see here any obsession with stuff
       | like recursion, but the preoccupation with math/data, plus what
       | seems like technical training as a draftsman actually reminds me
       | a lot of Escher.
        
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