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Spoilt by choice - connections
"The Paris system has 78 such choice points. The New York subway, the
most complex in the world, has 161. New York's system is so sprawling and interconnected,*Barthelemy and colleagues*Riccardo Gallotti*and Mason Porter concluded in a recent analysis, that it approaches the maximum complexity our human minds can handle, the equivalent of about 8 bits of information." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...he-human-mind/ E. |
Spoilt by choice - connections
In message 2016030313144122058-email@domaincom, at 13:14:41 on Thu, 3
Mar 2016, eastender remarked: "The Paris system has 78 such choice points. The New York subway, the most complex in the world, has 161. New York's system is so sprawling and interconnected,*Barthelemy and colleagues*Riccardo Gallotti*and Mason Porter concluded in a recent analysis, that it approaches the maximum complexity our human minds can handle, the equivalent of about 8 bits of information." What a strange way to describe it. What he really means is solving problems with more than 256 nodes. I reject the theory completely, not just because people do in fact cope with much more (how many destinations and junctions comprise "The Knowledge" for example), but because when you look at something such as a complex tube map you immediately rule out up to 90% of the map as being "out of bounds". https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nsit-systems-a re-growing-too-complex-for-the-human-mind/ -- Roland Perry |
Spoilt by choice - connections
On 2016\03\03 13:14, eastender wrote:
"The Paris system has 78 such choice points. The New York subway, the most complex in the world, has 161. New York's system is so sprawling and interconnected, Barthelemy and colleagues Riccardo Gallotti and Mason Porter concluded in a recent analysis, that it approaches the maximum complexity our human minds can handle, the equivalent of about 8 bits of information." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...he-human-mind/ Thanks for posting, but... That may be the most inaccurate meaningless pseudo-intellectual tosh about transit I've ever heard. Planning a journey involves global problems and local problems and the map has to be designed to help you with both. There is no way the ability to do this can be ascertained from a single numeral that doesn't even pertain to the map design. And as a simple proof, imagine a city in a valley with one main line down the middle and a thousand rack railways perpendicular to the mainline. Lots of junctions, no complexity. Even if adjacent rack railways met at their high points, so the mainline had triangles all down either side, still zero problem navigating. This map has fewer interchanges than the standard tube map because the DLR and Overground are missing, but it's far harder to plan a journey on it (and not just because they've screwed up Edgware Road.) https://www.flickr.com/photos/fdansv...n/photostream/ |
Spoilt by choice - connections
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 13:14:41 +0000
eastender wrote: "The Paris system has 78 such choice points. The New York subway, the most complex in the world, has 161. New York's system is so sprawling and interconnected,*Barthelemy and colleagues*Riccardo Gallotti*and Mason Porter concluded in a recent analysis, that it approaches the maximum complexity our human minds can handle, the equivalent of about 8 bits of information." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...stems-are-grow ng-too-complex-for-the-human-mind/ Just wait until more Overground lines are added to the tube map if TfL takes over some south london lines. -- Spud |
Spoilt by choice - connections
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 03:18:55PM +0000, d wrote:
Just wait until more Overground lines are added to the tube map if TfL takes over some south london lines. The Overground maps are only hard to make sense of because of the idiotic choice to make all the seperate routes the same colour: http://www.projectmapping.co.uk/Revi...Jan%202016.jpg We need different colours for (at least): * Liverpool St to anywhere (and that possibly needs splitting as well) * Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford; * Euston to Watford; * Goblin; * Clapham Junction to Highbury; * West Croydon (and New Cross, and Crystal Palace) to Highbury -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea It planely marques four my revue / Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word / And weight for it to say Weather eye am wrong oar write / It shows me strait a weigh. |
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