数据之美一张图观2000年文化迁移_BEC初级作文

数据之美一张图观2000年文化迁移

They may look like flight paths around North America and Europe. Or perhaps nighttime satellite photos, with cities lit up like starry constellations.

这些线条也许看上去很像北美和欧洲之间的航线，或是夜间卫星图，城市像星座一样被点亮。

But look again.

但请再瞧一瞧。

These animations chart the movement of Western culture over the past 2,000 years, researchers report Friday in the journal Science.

根据一研究团队在周五《科学》杂志上的报告，这些动画其实纪录了过去2000年间西方文化的迁移。

To make these movies, art historian Maximilian Schich and his colleagues mapped the births and deaths of more than 150,000 notable artists and cultural leaders, such as famous painters, actors, architects, politicians, priests and even antiquarians (people who collect antiques).

为了制作出这些影像，艺术史学家马克西米兰·舒尺和他的团队在地图上标出了15多万位艺术名人和文化领袖的出生和死亡地点，其中不乏著名的画家、演员、建筑师、政治家、牧师，甚至是古文物收藏家。

A shimmering blue dot lights up each new birth, while red dots represent each death.

地图上闪闪发亮的蓝点代表出生地点，红点则代表死亡地点。

We can watch as artists flock from rural areas to urban centers like London, Paris, Rome and Berlin after the Renaissance. Then in the late 17th century, people start to catapult from Europe into the eastern U.S. and then eventually leapfrog over to the West Coast.