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Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do - collect and share as many
One shadow library, Anna’s Archive (which I will not link here directly due to copyright concerns), recently posed a question: How could we effectively visualize 100,000,000 books or more at once? Color scheme can be chosen later We can apply arbitrary transformations or filters that update instantly We can combine multiple datasets on the fly This is what he sent me to try and explain it.The end result isn’t perfect and it feels a bit overengineered at 500 lines of code, but it works better than my original approach.
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