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The website is beautiful!
I love the nonaligned, floating sets — especially the bit with the ships and maps! Would be great to code this (or similar) without the use of Flash; I’d imagine that the “floating” look wouldn’t be too difficult, but not sure about the drag-able interface. I’ve never attempted the latter outside of ActionScript but have always wanted to use that.
France in the Year 2000 (XXI century) – a series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, originally in the form of paper cards enclosed to cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards. They depicted the world of the future, in 2000. The first cards were produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. There are at least 87 cards known that were authored by various French artists.
(All images via Wikimedia Commons).
Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett’s remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness through geometric forms.
