Biblical Visualizations at The Copeland Ramblings

I read about this on the blog of Brett Maxwell and found it quite fascinating:

Chris Harrison created a visualization of cross references in the bible. Each bar on the bottom represents a chapter in the bible, the bar on the far left being Genesis 1 and the bar on the far right being Revelation 22 (the length of the bar represents the chapter’s length). An arc between chapters represent a cross reference between the two. I’ve included links to the medium and large versions though I recommend checking out the High Resolution PNG (12000X7000).

In Chris’ own words:

This project started after receiving an email from Christoph Römhild. He had compiled a list of cross-references found in the Bible and was looking for advice on how to visualize these connections. After several email exchanges and a copy of Christoph’s data, I was able to produce the arc diagram below. Due to the extremely high number of cross-references, this lands more on the aesthetic side of the information visualization spectrum. Different colors are used for various arc lengths, creating a rainbow like effect. The bar graph running along the bottom shows every chapter in the Bible and their respective lengths (in verses). Books alternate in color between white and light gray.