Dawn Trains

This is an overhead shot of trains arriving and departing at dawn at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, the busiest station in the world. I caught this... more

by Carolyn Kami Loughlin

Title

Dawn Trains

Artist

Carolyn Kami Loughlin

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

This is an overhead shot of trains arriving and departing at dawn at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, the busiest station in the world. I caught this moment in time from an adjacent skyscraper, the South Century Towers Hotel.

Wikipedia: Shinjuku Station is a major railway station in Shinjuku and Shibuya wards in Tokyo, Japan.
Serving as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central Tokyo and its western suburbs on inter-city rail, commuter rail, and metro lines, the station was used by an average of 3.64 million people per day in 2007, making it, by far, the world's busiest transport hub (and registered as such with Guinness World Records). The station has 36 platforms. Including an underground arcade, there are well over 200 exits.

Wikipedia: The shape of an object located in some space is a geometrical description of the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary abstracting from location and orientation in space, size, and other properties such as colour, content, and material composition.
Mathematician and statistician David George Kendall writes:
We here define shape informally as all the geometrical information that remains when location, scale and rotational effects are filtered out from an object.
Simple shapes can be described by basic geometry objects such as a set of two or more points, a line, a curve, a plane, a plane figure (e.g. square or circle), or a solid figure (e.g. cube or sphere). Most shapes occurring in the physical world are complex. Some, such as plant structures and coastlines, may be so arbitrary as to defy traditional mathematical description in which case they may be analyzed by differential geometry, or as fractals.

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November 16th, 2012