<story><title>US Territorial Expansion: 200 years mapped with d3/HTML5</title><url>http://michaelporath.com/projects/manifest-destiny/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>arscan</author><text>Very cool.  Personally I find animated maps to be the easiest way to digest this kind of data (like the animation of nuclear testing[1] or walmart proliferation[2]).  Looks like it would only take a few lines of javascript to accomplish this kind of &quot;flipbook&quot; animation.  Just a thought -- great job regardless.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>Here&apos;s an animated-gif version of the American territorial changes map, found on Reddit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/5wZX0.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://i.imgur.com/5wZX0.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s just the maps in the Wikipedia article (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_Un...&lt;/a&gt;) turned into a flipbook animation, as you suggest.</text></comment>
<story><title>US Territorial Expansion: 200 years mapped with d3/HTML5</title><url>http://michaelporath.com/projects/manifest-destiny/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>arscan</author><text>Very cool.  Personally I find animated maps to be the easiest way to digest this kind of data (like the animation of nuclear testing[1] or walmart proliferation[2]).  Looks like it would only take a few lines of javascript to accomplish this kind of &quot;flipbook&quot; animation.  Just a thought -- great job regardless.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eric-hu</author><text>This will give you a basic animation.  Click on the first frame to expand that map, then enter this into your browser Javascript console to make it animate:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    a = function(){$(&apos;#next&apos;).click();b()};

    b = function(){setTimeout(a,500);};

    b()
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Or as a one liner:&lt;p&gt;a = function(){$(&apos;#next&apos;).click();b()};b = function(){setTimeout(a,500);};b()</text></comment>