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I love that it comes with a piece of paper reminding the viewer that this is a small selection of reality. Biochemistry is much, MUCH more complex than even these two 26 square foot posters.

I'd love to get a similar poster of the entire Linux kernel or, alternatively, the total supply chain for an everyday item like the proverbial pencil.

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What perfect timing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23452721

the complexity of the linux kernel (and in man-made things in general) is usually really small compared to biological systems.

I'm sure you could still fill a good-size poster if you make a nice inefficient representation, like every function call is a separate node in the graph and you include every single device driver even for decades old stuff like tape drives. I agree though, Mother Nature has an inordinate love for making everything a global variable and She definitely hates comments.

the analogy is good but i think it kinda breaks down when you consider the machine the kernel runs on.

so you would mostly represent the machine the software run on.

I'd buy a similar poster of the Linux kernel.

I'm sure some astute HN reader could whip up a script that generates illustrative posters of static call graphs given a Git repo!

https://makelinux.github.io/kernel/map/

my uni had some different, older posters about linux. one was radial with most non driver files represented. can’t seem to find them on the web though

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=26... exists, not what the poster was, but WHOA way cooler. also, old.

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