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Draw hi-res quads "around" interesting events (& periods) #5

Open gorbiz opened 2 years ago

gorbiz commented 2 years ago

An event with high specificity, let's say +- 1 year, 1 billion years ago would create a cluster of high resolution around that point. When zoomed out you see something there, and just by following the density of the squares...

Currently we have one such point of increased resolution; the present moment: image ...the obvious second focal point (which would, in fact, go even deeper) is the big bang, but there could be more, like extinction events etc.

Thinking in code / structured data:

const events = [
  {
    name: 'Universe Birth: <some first expansion event>',
    start: '0 UB', // FIXME UB, Universe Birth ...is not what physisists use
    end: '0.0000001ps UB',
    specificity: '0.000001ps'
    // tag: 'Universe Birth'
  },
  {
    name: 'Dinosaurs exists',
    start: 'between 243 and 233.23 mya',
    end: '66 mya'
  },
  {
    name: 'Dinosaurs are ...big / dominant',
    start: '201.3 mya',
    end: '66 mya'
  },
  {
    name: 'Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event',
    when: '66 mya'
  },
  {
    name: 'Agricultural revolution',
    start: '13 000 BP',
    end: 'ongoing',
    specificity: '1 000 years' // +- 1 000 years
  },
  {
    name: 'Today',
    start: '1 day ago',
    end: 'ongoing',
    specificity: '1 day'
  }
]
gorbiz commented 2 years ago

LOL, found an overlapping idea as a code comment:

const data = [
  {
    name: 'Homo Sapiens',
    description: 'Mostly hunter gatherers, at least 90% of the time (number of individuals is a different story).',
    image: 'img/homo-sapiens-hunter-gatherers.png',
    start: '250 000 BP',
    end: null
  },
  {
    name: 'Homo Sapiens, Agriculture',
    image: 'img/homo-sapiens-agriculture.png',
    start: '12 000 BP',
    end: null
  }
]