Gastner and Newman 2004, "Diffusion-based method for producting density equalizing maps"

Gastner & Newman - a pair of physicists at the University of Michigan - drew from fundamental laws of gas diffusion to create a really elegant method of generating contiguous cartograms. Their algorithm was used heavily during the 2004 US Presidential Elections and continues to be used by the Worldmapper project. Google Scholar finds 23 articles citing Gaster and Newman 2004 (as of 20 April 2007).

Gastner & Newman provide a great website with examples from the 2004 election as well as a C implementation of the algorithm.

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