Here and There

This is a fantastic way to show spatial distances in city areas. Might not work so well in areas without such dead straight streets, or iconic skylines, but very cool for New York.

Here and There - imagine a person standing at a street corner. The projection begins with a three-dimensional representation of the immediate environment. Close buildings are represented normally, and the viewer himself is shown in the third person, exactly where she stands.

As the model bends from sideways to top-down in a smooth join, more distant parts of the city are revealed in plan view. The projection connects the viewer's local environment to remote destinations normally out of sight.