Doctor Who Timeline

David McCandless of Information is Beautiful brought me on board to help with the design and realisation of an Infographic that visualised all of the Doctor Who journeys. He'd done a similar one for his first book, but this was of a scale and complexity far above that.Can't really put up a full res version, because it's owned by David and Wired. But here is an overview of it, and a couple of details. Most of the lines were put in place by the amazing Piero Zagami During the wireframing process I programmed a quick program that plotted all the journeys using Processing . You could zoom in and out on it and slide the mouse from side to side to move forward and back in time. It wasn't really something that we were going to use as a finished thing, but as a tool to see where the most interesting eras where, it was pretty cool.When the curve goes up, it is a journey backwards in time, and below, forwards. In the centre is the current year, and the top shows the range. Each of the eleven Doctors has a different colour.The vertical looking lines are journeys that are so temporally distant that the curve it describes appears almost straight.