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Twitter maze

A spiral shaped maze is generated using the top trending topics from Twitter during the last 24 hours. The whole maze is a suite of blocks (one for each topic, 20 topics for each hour), starting from the center (the most recent topics) and spiraling outwards. The height of each block is relative to the frequency of appearance (24 hours wise) of the topic it represents.

RUN

Twitter Maze was originally created for Written Images, «a generative book that presents programmed images by various artists. Each print in process will be calculated individually – which makes every single book unique».

control

  • • Left mouse button + dragging: camera orientation.
  • • Right mouse button + dragging: camera zoom.

requirements

  • • Decent computer
  • • Modern browser, with limited number of hungry tabs

history

  • • The original program was headless, only capable of producing high-resolution (4080x2720) images.
  • • Then, it became an interactive application for Mac and PC, fetching and displaying the latest trends at each run.
  • • At some point, the Twitter API changed (trends became local) and the application stopped working.
  • • Nowadays, the program has been remastered and runs within the browser. However, the same data-set (from 2010) is displayed at each run, instead of the actual trends.

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