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Re:How an Algorithm Helped Arrange the Names on the 9/11 Mem... by jtchang on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @10:05PM (#2972322)
Is anyone else mildly curious as to the actual code that was used? Even though I imagine it nothing more than a graph with specific weights it still must have been pretty complex.
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Re:How an Algorithm Helped Arrange the Names on the 9/11 Mem... by maxhawkins on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @10:40PM (#2972426)
The artist, Jer Thorp, has a blog post describing the algorithm. He started with a clustering algorithm then wrote a tool in Processing to review the adjacencies by hand.

http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/all-the-names

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