Comment by zamadatix

Something that surprises me about these types of presentations is they all reference the work of Chris Scotese. As far as I can tell that work is over 20 years old from its last coat of paint and 40 years old from when the bulk of the work was done. The website even has the late 90s early 2000s feel (not just in looks but if you click around you can find his kids personal pages from when they were in high school, I wonder what they are doing nowadays). Between the manual artistic license in the renderings to the limitations in simulation and data at the time I wonder how much this is really just like early maps of the world where specific observations are there but largely the picture is drawn more to fill in the gaps than data.