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I’ve been interested in depictions of the evolution of ideas and cultural movements since posting about Timothy Stotz’s amazingly complex evolutionary diagram of 500 years of art. Here are some other inspiring diagrams of evolution, culminating in the genealogy of Linux distribution, which is the clearest and most accurate because it’s built in to the language itself.
Alfred H Barr Jr’s book cover for Cubism and Abstract Art depicts the evolution of modernism through an evolutionary tree, using red text to separate influences external to the art world.
The revised Bushy Tree depicts the influence of visual computing environments on each other in a similar evolution, this time populated exclusively by software.
The Evolution of Linux is one of the most logical to map, since the open source licensing makes influence explicit.
. Leo is a artist, inventor and all around practical person in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. He has a background in sculpture, architecture and industrial design as well as an MS from the Media Lab spent working on the kitchen of the future. He is on a search for truth.
