Robert Kooima

Here’s a little infoviz showing the relative proportion of the contents of the universe. At a glance, it gives an impression of the relative rarity of normal matter in a universe full of not-yet-understood matter and energy, and the extreme rarity of the heavy elements that comprise our planet and ourselves.

This image was algorithmically generated by a Haskell program which output SVG to be loaded into Adobe Illustrator for titling. Here’s a PDF.