Visually Representing Deep Time: An Attempt at Understanding the Cause-and-Effect Relationships leading to Evolution of Life on Earth


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Creator/Artist: Abhinav Bansal

Category: Interaction Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2021-2023

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2019-onwards

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Venkatesh Rajamanickam


Detailed Description

The project aims at the concept of deep time and understanding the cause-and-effect relationships that led to the evolution of life by using interactive data visualization. The visualizations are exploratory and data-driven. Deep time refers to the life of the earth, which is accepted to be 4.56 billion years in age. The human mind can easily visualise timescales of smaller range. However, as soon as this scale is increased, this understanding diminishes. I break down entire geologic time into 8 chapters and use a narrative and a metaphor of 80 years of human life to bind these chapters together. I designed different visualisations for each chapter; however, the semantics were kept constant throughout.


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