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xkcd’s Movie Narrative Charts

November 3rd, 2009 Randall Hand

xkcd-movies Another great visualization creation from xkcd, this time showing “Movie Narratives” for Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (Original Trilogy), Jurassic Park, 12 angry men, and Primer. Of course the last few are mainly a joke, but the Lord of the Rings & Star Wars ones really are impressive, showing locations, battles, how the character’s parties formed and dispersed throughout the story.

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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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numbersguy
November 4th, 2009 at 12:31 | #1
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I love XKCD. If you scan back he does stuff like this from time to time. Look for a map of the internet.
Regarding Memento the question is which "timeline", as the movie presents it or the real timeline? The real timeline would be not that unusual, there wouldn’t be any loops, for example.
Personally, Iwonder if the Primer chart is accurate or just a bunch of scribbles thrown in there.
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Daniel McLaren
November 4th, 2009 at 13:24 | #2
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I really like xkcd and this one in particular. I’d been wanting to do a graph visualization on a timeline so I mashed it up with this comic. The result is pretty cool, you can see it on my blog.
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Randy Krum
November 4th, 2009 at 14:16 | #3
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Numbersguy, I do think the Primer chart is a bunch of scribbles, but I bet it’s pretty close. Very funny.
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November 4th, 2009 at 14:37 | #4
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yea, me too. Seems only a bit odd that he put all that work into StarWars and LotR (and Jurassic Park) only to "punt" so heavily on Primer.
Frankly I’d LOVE to see a real one for Primer. But I suspect it won’t be as funny as XKCD as … well… how complicated can the interactions of the 2-3 main characters be? Even if they do loop in time multiple times. Ahhh comedy wins here over accuracy ;-)
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