World Religions Tree

Somewhere sometime – demands were made. And since I take pleasure in a slight activism – I decided to utilize that brains of mine bestowed upon me by the almighty EVOLUTION (just kidding) and see what I can do.

Turns out I can do quite a lot.

This is an awesome work apparently sponsored by The 40 Foundation and prepared by the awesome people at Funk & Consulting.

The image is JFH (just…huge) and it probably wouldn’t load in the browser, so the folks in F&C decided to use OpenMap JavaScript library to load the image piece by piece on demand.

But we the Interwebz overlords demand more. So I took the liberty of using some FF plugins, a bit of bash scripting and a damned 9 Gigabytes of RAM memory (my 4GB laptop would freeze while merging images) to stitch thousands of small images into one huge pic.

And since Edgar wanted to have a poster, he shall receive it. Well – kind of.

So the results are just awesome:

One huge image of finest details – 13824x9792px in resolution, 37.90 MiB in size – one damn huge JPG file for your convenience (On demand, see below). Just loading that image into a viewer takes almost 800 MB of virtual memory.

Then there is a 5000×3542 version (9.5 MiB) – click the image below to load the file. And the 800 pixel one above in this very article.

But that’s just for starters.

There are posters! You can print it out on a normal printer and glue the DIN A4 paper sheets together. So here go:

ONE WORD BEFORE – I DO NOT CLAIM ANY RIGHTS TO THE FOLLOWING FILES. ALL OF THEM ARE THE PROPERTY OF THE RESPECTIVE INSTITUTIONS (MENTIONED BEFORE). A SMALL MARK HAS BEEN ADDED TO NOTE THE SOURCE OF THE WHOLE IMAGE. IF REQUESTED – THIS WILL BE TAKEN DOWN.

I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY GADGETS OR POSTERS BEING SOLD BY THE 40 FOUNDATION OR FUNK & CONSULTING. IF THERE ARE – BUY IT! AND IF THERE ARE NOT – IF YOU USE THE FOLLOWING FILES PLEASE STRONGLY CONSIDER DONATING TO EITHER OF THE TWO. THEY MADE A DAMN GOOD JOB WITH THIS AND THEY SHOULD BE AWARDED FOR THAT.

out of the original 13824 pixel image:

World Religions Tree in PDF format, 200x141cm – 8×8 A4 sheets (On demand, see below)
World Religions Tree in PDF format, 100x71cm – 4×4 A4 sheets (On demand, see below)
World Religions Tree in PDF format, 77x54cm – 3×3 A4 sheets (On demand, see below)

out of the resized image (6494 pixels wide)

World Religions Tree in PDF format, 200x141cm – 8×8 A4 sheets (On demand, see below)
World Religions Tree in PDF format, 100x71cm – 4×4 A4 sheets
World Religions Tree in PDF format, 77x54cm – 3×3 A4 sheets

The stuff ‘On demand’ – those are pretty big files about 40 MiB so I do not want to add unnecessary bandwidth load in here. There is also a second reason – as this is a quite a high quality work, I’d like to know who gets it. So here is the deal: there are two ways to get those files.

First way is to login to your Google+ account (if you have gmail then it’s almost seamless – it’s enough to click You+ link on google toolbar and sign up to google+. You’ll thank me for that later). Once you have logged in, go and join our small Atheism Community, navigate to this post and ask for the file in the commentary or even better add me to your circles and PM me your gmail address. I’ll be able to share those files with you easily thanks to google mechanics – which works the best with gmail.com email address.

The second way is to mail me your gmail address and I’ll send you back a specific file I’ll be able to share with you the specific file you’re asking for.

No, kids, no facebook. We’re all grownups here.

So please enjoy this awesome work by The 40 Foundation and Funk & Consulting, donate to them when possible and see for yourself how did we, the humanity, develop almost countless, various religions throughout the ages, and how it was almost an evolutionary process (if not entirely).

Also – thanks to Edgar for sharing that work with the rest of the community. It certainly is priceless resource!