Darwin's seminal work On The Origin of Species went through 6 editions, growing from 150,000 words to 190,000. Ben Fry has developed a beautiful way to visualise this, laying out the words of the first edition, and then colour-coding the changes as they happen, all along an animated timeline. Hard to describe (as I've just demonstrated), just head over and check it out - it's a wonderful piece of work that must have taken forever to complete...
Check out Ben Fry's On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces
Check out Ben Fry's On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces
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