Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC
The images truly are breathtaking.<p>His note about the streets seeming like neurons is interesting, but I hope I'm not the only person who immediately thought the shots resembled an exaggerated extruded version of a chip's layered layout.<p>(Here's sort of a small version:
<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Cell-Processor.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Cell-Proc...</a> )<p>It's a bit odd: the scale of the city is not quite large enough to look like a modern processor's layout, yet is tens/hundreds of thousands of times larger. The scale of complexity is boggling.