A Century of Warming Drawn as a Spiral
A silent radial data animation stacks 143 years of monthly temperature traces before turning the finished spiral into a 3D form.
By @nasascientificvisualizatio5842 for NASA Scientific Visualization StudioRuns 00:30
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Why it works
At frame 0 the empty radial scale teaches the coordinate system; within the opening second the first trace and changing counter establish the one-record-per-period rule. One continuous 901-frame shot retains the history for comparison, and the same geometry becomes a legible layered stack around 26.5 s without a cut.
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