A digital artist known as Chaotic Atmospheres has run city maps through World Terrain, a software system that simulates real-world geological events like erosion. The results are these evocative “erosion flow maps” that imagine what might happen to cities if they flowed into the environments around them.
Tokyo, Japan
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paris, France
Cairo, Egypt
Beijing, China
New York City, New York
Venice, Italy
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All images are from Chaotic Atmospheres.