Casey Reas, cofounder of the Processing language, has posted the Terre Natale project on Processing.org’s Exhibition Page. We are very excited to be featured here. The project description on Processing appropriately focusses on the digital team, but for more information on all of the collaborators who made this project possible please see Stewdio Blog items tagged Terre Natale.

Below is a one minute excerpt from the half-hour show that demonstrates humanity divided equally between cities and rural areas, a threshold only recently crossed in 2007. In this visualization nearly six million pixel-sized “agents” fill the screen and flock to their geographic home. First the city-dwellers take their place, illustrating 50% of all living people occupying a tiny portion of Earth. Finally the remainder of “agents” take their place, filling out the familiar shapes of the continents.

Terre Natale – Population Shift (Pixel Flock) from Stewdio on Vimeo.