Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/27/topography-of-u-s-states-visu.html
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That’s pretty darn cool!
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Peter Saville, who had previously designed posters for Manchester’s Factory club in 1978, designed the cover of [Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division]. Sumner chose the image used on the cover, which is based on an image of radio waves from Pulsar CP 1919, from The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy. Saville reversed the image from black-on-white to white-on-black and printed it on textured card for the original version of the album. It is not a Fourier analysis, but rather an image of the intensity of successive radio pulses, as stated in the Cambridge Encyclopaedia. The image was originally created by radio astronomer Harold Craft at the Arecibo Observatory for his 1970 PhD thesis.
– wikimapedia
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Like those very much, but they do rather emphasise just how flat and featureless many states in that big flat central part of the US really are, as Bill Bryson said of his home state of Iowa, ‘stand on a couple of phone directories, you’ve got a view!”. 
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Seems appropriate; America: She’s Lost Control Again.
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Just to add, I’d love to see the whole of the U.K. rendered like this, it would make a great print for the wall.
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Which is why a lot of the states look so disingenuously flat. To make the highest peaks not seem ridiculously high, everything else feels unnaturally flattened. My opinion – a little contextual tweaking of the scale would go a long way.
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That sounded great on my headphones. Thank you for sharing.
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You are more than welcome!
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Anyone else notice the cool 3D effect when scrolling this image up and down?
My favorite is Nevada. It’s just a bunch of bumps!
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