work in progress: iPad app from Leonardo Fibonacci on Vimeo.

One of our experiments in iOS app development and simple multitouch control concepts for infographics, featuring the »Gorch Fock«

For our client GEO we made a graphic which was published today (Jul 23, 2010). It shows an imaginary continent that would exist if all land mass was squished together parallel to the equator and then sorted by surface type—forests, grasslands, farmland, cities, among others.

For the surface type, we used data from the GLCF and then applied our own projection method after adding some sorting algorithms to it. So again: thanks to ActionScript and AlivePDF!

The newest customer magazine from PricewaterhouseCoopers features two Infographics made by Golden Section Graphics. One of them consists of a world map which uses the Fuller Projection, a.k.a Dymaxion Map.

If you cut the map out and glue the edges together, you get a nice paper globe.

It’s surrounded by lots of triangles, each one representing a nation of the world. Inside each of those triangles, there is a small bar chart with five bars. The values are different indexes on sustainability, like energy efficiency and carbon footprint.

Both the map and the triangles are generated with AlivePDF, the ActionScript 3 Open-Source PDF Library. The vector graphics were then processed in Adobe Illustrator.