My colleague StÈfan Sinclair has recently set up a site for the Mandala: Rich Prospect Browser text visualization project that he leads. The current prototype was programmed in Flash, but he is reimplementing it in Java. It is one of the more original ideas for visualization that I have seen in a while and builds on Stan Ruecker’s ideas for rich prospect browsing where you can see some representation of the whole of your evidence (the prospect) while manipulating the details. StÈfan has also been working with ideas of direct manipulation of that whole. In Mandala you create dimensions based on criteria (author = X, Y, or Z) that act as attractors.