Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC
The images truly are breathtaking.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.(Here's sort of a small version:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Cell-Proc... )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.