Anthropologist Felix Pharand’s amazingly beautiful...

Anthropologist Felix Pharand’s amazingly beautiful diagrams transcend the realm of mere infographic.

These silvery threads stretching around the dark globe create a dramatic spider’s web showing the patterns of our global sprawl.

The stunning images are the result of 13 years of devotion by Canadian anthropologist Felix Pharand who uses them to show how human technologies such as data cables, aeroplanes and roads are colonising the surface of our planet.

Using an ordinary home PC, Pharand input data from agencies such as the Geospatial Intelligence Agency and Atmospheric Administration to create accurate illustrations of how humans have ‘domesticated’ our planet - superimposing the data on images of the earth’s cities lit up at night.

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Human technology…
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Those threads across the ocean. :o
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AMAZING!
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