Evolving Word
Same studio, same stories. A different view out the window.
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Everything you see and hear is made in your browser as you watch: no photos, no 3D models, no audio files. The mountains, the lake, the city, the airfield and its planes, the monastery and its valley, the music on the tape and the scratch map are all code.
The board over the window runs Richard Dawkins' "weasel program" from The Blind Watchmaker (1986): random letters, copied with mistakes, the best copy kept, generation after generation, until they spell something.
The words on the band over the monastery's window are mostly from St. Francis's Canticle of the Creatures, in Matthew Arnold's translation (public domain). The radio in the tower is made up from tones and noise; no real air traffic control is heard. The library is after the one in Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Library of Babel" (the idea only, none of its words). The lines from scripture in the library, the observatory and the cell are from the King James Bible and the Vulgate (public domain).
The books on the shelf are in the public domain. The world map is drawn from Natural Earth data (public domain). Built with three.js and d3-geo. Type: Archivo Black, VT323, Caveat, Space Mono, EB Garamond and UnifrakturMaguntia (SIL Open Font License). Made with Claude.
A little studio by a mountain lake
Where family and friends make things together, then make them for real.
Step inside the full sceneBest on a laptop or desktop.
Every book here is in the public domain. Take one down.
Write to studio@evolvingword.com, or open Our Studio.