Coalition war deaths in Iraq

BoingBoing linked to an animation showing the number of troop deaths on each day of the war in Iraq. Here's the author's description:

The animation runs at ten frames per second - one frame for each day [of the war in Iraq] - and a single black dot indicates the geographic location that a coalition military fatality occurred. Each dot starts as a white flash and a larger red dot which fades to black over the span of 30 frames/days, and then slowly fades to grey over the span of the entire war.

Accompanying the visual representation is a soft 'tic' sound for each fatality, the volume of which increases relative to the number of fatalities that occurred simultaneously that day. More deaths in a smaller area produces visually deeper reds and audibly more pronounced 'tic's.

This goes well with the Washington Post's Faces of the Fallen project.

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• politics
• Iraq