Regarding the recent posting of the Lombardi image, which depicts the deeper structure of interlinking not necessarily as a useful tool to show the routes drawn by it, but more likely as a seducing view tracing the lines. The revealed background pattern might talk about an actual connection, but there is not that much said about its relevence ….
Tracing back to the TouchGraph Google browser – here is the example, which follows up the architectural structure behind as a two-dimensional pattern: