Oliver Blanthorn

RE: https://masto.ai/@bovine3dom/116057908164467046

ooh actually this would make a really cool flow diagram

i could define the velocities as always being towards Paris

would have to think about what to do about flows that cross though 🤔

Feb 20 at 10:27amWeb
Show threadktylFeb 20
@bovine3dom unfortunately the original source doesn't seem to be loading for me but here's an article about this data vis/art project where they highlighted all the rome- (and other city-) pointing roads https://mymodernmet.com/all-roads-to-rome-project-map/
Designers Map Out All the Roads That Really Lead to Rome

Everyone is familiar with the saying "All roads lead to Rome," dating back to a time when all empirical roads radiated out from the capital of

My Modern Met
Show threadMoof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NLFeb 20
@ktyl @bovine3dom I’m now wondering if we can manage an “all trains lead to Vienna” map similar to that ;)
Show threadOliver BlanthornFeb 20

@moof ooh that's cool. but what i want to do is cooler because i think fast trains are fun

i have probably been living in France too long

@ktyl

Show threadOliver BlanthornFeb 20
@moof choo choo. annoyingly the us looks cooler @ktyl
Show threadOliver BlanthornFeb 20

@moof which part of the 80/20 principle is it that says the longer you spend on something the worse it looks

@ktyl

Show threadOliver BlanthornFeb 20
@moof my intuition about the 'sink' is clearly off because swapping between Paris and Vienna barely changes it. you can kind of see it but it's nothing like the worms i had at the start with the extreme smoothing @ktyl
Show threadMoof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NLFeb 20
@bovine3dom @ktyl I dunno, I like the swoops towards Paris there…
Show threadOliver BlanthornFeb 20
@moof yeah. it's a more solid basis. ugly duckling phase let's call it. but somewhere along the line (hah) i've introduced a bug where some speeds are insane, like, 65,000km/h
Show threadThomas =:-)Feb 20
@bovine3dom @moof with a /little/ bit more work you might achieve ftl speeds (igmc)
Show threadOliver BlanthornFeb 20

@Tho99 hah.

it was a really classic dumb bug. initially i was taking the average and when i changed it to max i forgot to change it to max in all the branches, so some of the speeds ended up getting added. which when you have 100+ intercity trains a day along a route... 🚀

@moof

Show threadpglux.bsky.socialFeb 20
And you still want to cut TGV Paris M - Toulouse M back to Bordeaux SJ?
Show threadOliver BlanthornFeb 20
@pglux.bsky.social not really related to what i was saying but yeah, it's daft to use a TGV when Corail can do it in more or less exactly the same time for ~zero opportunity cost
Show threadpglux.bsky.socialFeb 21
Toulouse is 🇫🇷 4th largest urban unit, with 1.1M people. One of the fastest growing metros in 🇫🇷, along with Bordeaux, Nantes and Rennes. CDG+ORY - TLS is 🇫🇷 busiest ✈️ air route. And one of the busiest in 🇫🇷. Passenger numbers are on the rise. Cutting back TGV in Bordeaux SJ wouldn't make sense.🔜
Show threadpglux.bsky.socialFeb 21
Corail stock is knackered and unreliable. And the Oxygène units on order will be too few to increase frequency on Transversale Sud. Right now, market potential would require 1 tph. And easily 3 tph with LGV SO1 from 2031. 🔙