One of the most recent estimates I’ve heard for the tsunami death toll was around 120,000 150,000. Like most people, I am having trouble coming to grips with such a number in anything but an abstract form, so I have done my best to visualize it.

This circle is comprised of approximately 150,000 individual colored dots — that’s just one pixel per person. It may be a conservative estimate of how many people have died in the disaster, since most sources have it that there will be many more to come, due mostly to disease.

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NOTE: I was inspired to create this image when I saw this page linked from BoingBoing… I wanted to be able to "see" the number all at once, without scrolling.

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