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Babel tower
Where information visualization meets metaphorical representation...
Taking the biblical passage mentioning the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) and wrapping it around a helicoidal path, allowing to read the text by rotating it indefinitely.
control
- • If you're a believer, click the tower once and say amen...
acknowledgments
- • Biblical content has been obtained from the following sources.
requirements
- • Decent computer
- • Modern browser, with limited number of hungry tabs
history
- • The first iteration of this program was a Java applet created in 2003 with Processing.
- • At some point, the Java technology became obsolete in the browser.
- • In 2010, the program became an iPhone application.
- • Nowadays, the program has been remastered and runs within the browser.
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