Speculative Timeline Visualization

On the sub­ject of impress­ive focus on detail, comes this amus­ing exer­cise…Map­ping the vari­ous timelines in the col­lec­tion of back to the Future movies to allow for the cre­ation of altern­ate timelines due to time travel. This Wiki­pe­dia entry charts the vari­ous char­ac­ters, their ancest­ors and par­tic­u­lar events and attempts to por­tray all the skip­ping around through time in a straight for­ward chart. The author does an great job…this is inform­a­tion dis­til­la­tion extremely well accom­plished. The art­icle is fun in its own right, but the ima­gin­ing of the altern­ate timelines is par­tic­u­larly astute.