Inspiration for the wave9 model includes various experiencially immersive works that bring maintain physical coherence between micro and macro elements of the visualization.

Located in Washington, D.C., the Vietnam Veterans Memorial includes the names of over 58,000 servicemen and women who gave their lives in service in the Vietnam Conflict.
A database containing the addresses of every Web site in the world Lisa Jevbratt's 1:1 also includes interfaces through which to view and use the database. The interfaces/visualizations are "not maps of the web but are, in some sense, the web".
A voyage across the US-Mexico border, stitched together from 200,000 satellite images, Josh Begley's 'Googs Luck with the Wall,' "was about looking. It was about the sheer desire to understand the visual landscape that we are talking about when we are talking about the southern border of the United States."