Image of the day: connections
Pete Wilton | 23 Oct 08
What do you think this image is of?
A chemical compound? Particle trails? Brain cells?
Actually it's a visualisation showing the contraction of payments between designers and contractors in the New York garment industry from 1985-2003.
In this week's PNAS Oxford's Felix Reed-Tsochas and colleagues at CABDyN report how they developed dynamic models for how networks can shrink and ultimately dissolve.
Their analysis of the NY garment scene is distilled in these three superimposed images showing (top) the dense network of payments between firms in 1985, then (middle) 1995 and the sparse network (bottom) of 2003.
According to Felix similar modelling approaches could be used to analyse the disassembly of other complex systems, such as ecosystems, financial markets and the neural degeneration associated with Alzheimer's.
Read the Said Business School release here.
Felix Reed-Tsochas is James Martin Lecturer in Complex Systems and Co-Director, CABDyN Complexity Centre.
Image courtesy of Felix Reed-Tsochas, Serguei Saavedra and David Smith, CABDyN Complexity Centre, Oxford University.
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