Mannahatta/Manhattan – A Natural History of New York City

A new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York uses computer simulations and visualization to show what Manhattan island looked like when it was first discovered back in 1609.

The show’s imagery, created by Markley Boyer, even allows us to envision Manhattan as it might have looked in 1609, when Henry Hudson and his men sailed past. It was a verdant paradise. Its temperate climate and its location atop an estuary, where freshwater and saltwater meet, created, Mr. Sanderson suggests, a habitat of extraordinary diversity.

via Exhibition Review – ‘Mannahatta/Manhattan – A Natural History of New York City’ – Manhattan – An Island Always Diverse, at the Museum of the City of New York – NYTimes.com.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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