{"id":2660,"date":"2009-09-05T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2009-09-05T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T17:52:07","slug":"ben-fry-the-preservation-of-favoured-traces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2660","title":{"rendered":"Ben Fry: The preservation of favoured traces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2662\" title=\"Picture 17\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-17-300x189.png\" alt=\"Picture 17\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sean pointed me to a lovely visualization by Ben Fry called <a href=\"http:\/\/benfry.com\/traces\/\">The Preservation Of Favoured Traces<\/a>. The animated visualization shows the edits of Darwin&#8217;s The Origin Of Species edition by edition. It is a rich-prospect view of the entire work with color coded lines where changes were made. It was developed in Processing. Ben Fry says the following about the project:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin&#8217;s <em>On the Origin of Species<\/em> evolved over the course of several editions he wrote, edited, and updated during his lifetime. The first English edition was approximately 150,000 words and the sixth is a much larger 190,000 words. In the changes are refinements and shifts in ideas \u2014 whether increasing the weight of a statement, adding details, or even a change in the idea itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean pointed me to a lovely visualization by Ben Fry called The Preservation Of Favoured Traces. The animated visualization shows the edits of Darwin&#8217;s The Origin Of Species edition by edition. It is a rich-prospect view of the entire work with color coded lines where changes were made. It was developed in Processing. Ben Fry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ben Fry: The preservation of favoured traces<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-arts","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}