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How an Algorithm Helped Arrange the Names on the 9/11 Memorial
- jtchang 15y agoIs anyone else mildly curious as to the actual code that was used? Even though I imagine it nothing more than a graph with specific weights it still must have been pretty complex.
- maxhawkins 15y agoThe artist, Jer Thorp, has a blog post describing the algorithm. He started with a clustering algorithm then wrote a tool in Processing to review the adjacencies by hand. http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/all-the-names http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/all-the-names