M-Zaurus screensaver

If you indicate semantic relations between words in a dictionary, you build a thesaurus. If you run a list of metro stations in alphabetical order and draw tracks them, you create a metro thesaurus, or M-Zaurus. Throw in the trains, make several maps for different cities, and there you have it—a screensaver for users with a thing for complex systems.

Kiev Minsk Moscow Novosibirsk St. Petersburg Tashkent

The lines connect adjacent stations forming an intricate pattern.

The radius depends only on how far apart the stations appear in the alphabetical list

The more stations there are, the more tangled gets the map.

Moscow Metro M-Zaurus in full