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Infographic of the Day: The Plot of Lord of the Rings

BY Cliff KuangMon Nov 2, 2009

movie narrative chart

Randall Munroe's claim to fame is XKCD, a Web-comic devoted to geekery which has a rabid following. Today, he's scrapped the math jokes and dry wit for a massive infographic, illustrating all of the character interactions in Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, 12 Angry Men, and Primer.

The last two are visual jokes, but the first three are straight-up exhaustive catalogs of various plot turns and subplots. The X-axis is time; the groupings along the Y-axis denote who's interacting with whom. For example, here's a detail of the LOTR:

The Lord of the Rings

Best sure to check out the full-size version.

[Via Infosthetics]

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Design, info graphic, infographic, data visualization, data viz, XKCD, Randall Munroe, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Innovation, Technology, Randall Munroe


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December 6, 2009 at 5:04pm by Patrick Lindqvist

Wow. Study this well before you invite your friends to test this quiz this weekend....
http://huffbuff.com/play/start/44