Most things in life go up and down. For example, my
weight. For example, the share price of Rentishams.
For
example, a person's disposable income.
All of these can be displayed on a graph. And what, I
hear
you ask, is the point of that? None! - I answer. A graph
is
a graph is
a graph.
Meanwhile, the topography of the Earth is being mapped
with increasing resolution. Clever reconstruction from
multiple photos can reveal the topography of any region
with stuning precision.
What is needed, therefore, is an App.
MaxCo.'s latest and first venture into the world of Apps,
therefore, is our Topography Matcher (we are thinking of
coming up with a cooler name).
Simply feed your graph data into Topography Matcher,
and
the software will scan the mapped surface of the Earth
to
find a segment whose topography exactly matches your
data.
Rather than a mundane chart of cod stocks from 1951-
98,
you can proudly display the north-east approach of Mont
Blanc, identified as having the same peaks and troughs.
Rather than a dull graph of your personal wealth over
the
last three decades, you can instead display a
topographically identical section of either East Anglia or
Nepal, depending on your fortunes.
Those who believe in the fundamental
interconnectedness
of all things (of whom I am not one; but I am happy to
take
from money from those who do) can go even further. If
your sales over the last five years are a perfect match
for
a cross-section through Pokaho County, Nebraska, you
can
confidently extend the line on the map to make
projections over the coming years.
The possibilities are unlimitless.