this post was submitted on 26 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How not to do information design

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yea, needs contrasting colors, not all one shade. Could go from a color you see at the ground like green, to the color of the sky, blue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Iirc this correlates to the bed rock distribution depth. I seem to recall a side by side at some point in my browsing over the years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

To at least some extent for sure — and if you see Manhattan’s skyline from the east or the west, there are actually two skylines: one downtown and another in Midtown. There are very few tall buildings along 23rd Street.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there an HD version of this picture somewhere? I think I'm gonna print it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Sure would be nice as anything other than .gif