
Overview Process
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If you indicate semantic relations between words in a dictionary, you build a thesaurus. If you run a list of metro stations in alphabetical order and draw tracks them, you create a metro thesaurus, or M-Zaurus. Throw in the trains, make several maps for different cities, and there you have it—a screensaver for users with a thing for complex systems. The lines connect adjacent stations forming an intricate pattern. ![]() The radius depends only on how far apart the stations appear in the alphabetical list
The more stations there are, the more tangled gets the map. ![]() Moscow Metro M-Zaurus in full
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Release date: May 14 2010 Cast: art director & designer
privy councilor
flash technologist
contributors
Art. Lebedev Studio would like to thank Yevgenia Volkova for her assistance in collecting the data
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