The Opte Project is Barrett Lyon’s free, open-source initiative to create a visual representation of the metaphysical spaces of the internet. In this image from the project, each line plots the communication between two internet protocol (IP) addresses. The length of the lines denotes the delay between the two nodes. Lyon explains that the image “was based on a technology called ‘traceroute,’ which actually goes over every sequence of the internet and creates a visual trace. It would be like driving each road in the world systematically and then drawing that out.”

Source: MoMA