Pick a thread and Driftline drifts you through its places in order, narrating each stop.
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Palimpsest
Deep places — rise through their strata
Laguna addresses that hold many layers of history at one spot. Pick one to stack its eras into a tower and rise through them (↑ / ↓).
Relationship web
size
cluster
height
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The corpus, mapped
confidence
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Instrument
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Instrument
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Instruments
Reading · intensity by decade
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Stacked · past → present×
How to read Driftline×
Time runs left → right; each lane is a tradition, stacked in depth. Scroll or drag to move through time; press ↑ / ↓ to move through depth and bring a tradition forward; click a place to dive to its lane. Pinch or ⌘-scroll to zoom, ❧ to play a story, ⚑ to audit gaps.
Layers bring up the rich background
Lanes click a lane name to drill into its subcultures · Esc to collapse
Dots
a dated place
approximate date
selected — opens its threads
fainter = lower confidence
Bands when Data is on
green: population — the ring marks the peak; the band thins as Laguna does
seam: home value — shimmer (dashed) is the model, solid amber is what actually sold; stitches below are sales volume
blue: sea level
ember: a wildfire year
Data Provided by Zillow Group (ZHVI) · Data from the Redfin Data Center · CA Dept. of Finance E-4 · NOAA tides · CAL FIRE
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Driftline
A branching history of Laguna Beach. Traditions split off a single spine through time while the coast and the map transform beneath them.
or just scroll → · drag · pinch to zoom · ⌖ Key to learn the map
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