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Author(s):   Stefanie Posavec

Institutions:   itsbeenreal.co.uk

Date:   2008

URL: http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/writing-without-words/about-this-project/

Project Description:

Writing without words is a project that explores methods of visually representing text and visualizes the differences in writing styles of various authors.

   "For the first chapter diagrams, I attempted to create a system that could easily represent differences in writing style between authors. I used the number of words per sentence to generate drawings of the first chapters of various modern classics: the more tightly wound the drawing means a shorter, choppier flow of sentences was used, while a larger drawing represents a writing style that utilizes long flowing sentences." (Stefanie Posavec)