Information Graphics

This is an information graphic called Similar Diversity which looks at the topics of religion and faith trough a visual involving the Holy Books of five world religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. The basis of the design is an objective text analysis, and is done without any interpretations from the creator. This graphic conveys information by connecting characters in the five Holy Books with frequently used words. The arcs show similarities in activities between different characters. The different sizes and shades of gray used on these arcs shows the strength of the similarities between the characters. This image attracted me because it's interesting to look at. After reading about it, I want to see it in person so I can spend a lot of time looking at the crazy detail. You can't see it in the image, but there are numbers where the arcs intersect that show the strength of the correlation between the characters, calculated by and algorithm. Plus, the topic is so interesting. Religion and faith are the most controversial topics across the world, and an objective look at how all of those conflicting faiths are actually similar is just really beautiful.

(More info here: http://similardiversity.net/about/)