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| An entire text is arranged in an arc, stepping clockwise, starting at 12:00.
Lines are drawn around the outside, words around the inside. Words that appear more often are brighter. |
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| Words used more than once in the text are drawn only once, at their average position.
Here, rays are drawn from "Alice" to everywhere she appears. |
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| Averaging helps show the viewer where a word is used.
"Gryphon" appears near 9:00, pulled close to his episode in the story
by the rubber band-like action of the averaging. |
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| A curved line can connect the words in the order they appear in the text. This is just
for fun, showing how the TextArc space relates to the original linear space of the text. |
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| Here "Rabbit" is highlighted in the arc and an overlay full-text window.
Lines containing "Rabbit" are drawn in green around the arc, in
the text window, and even in the scrollbar. |
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| A concordance shows how many times each word is used. Words can be looked up
in a Thesaurus and drawn in red. |
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