in which there are too many circles

[corivax]

Science yearly gives out awards for the best science images and visualizations. Here is one of this year's runners up:

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[corivax]

I wrote it in Processing because I wanted to see what all the fuss is about - one of my work collaborators will not stop talking about Processing ever. I see now! The code is like sixteen lines1, and it would be very fast to turn it into a web toy.

[1] Not counting preprocessing the text, and generating the list of words so common I should ignore them, both of which I'm doing with a separate script.

[corivax]

Legal papers! What a great idea! Someone I know was working on a legalese-to-english translation program, but he never got anywhere. I should see what washington's legal code looks like. Thanks! What an excellent structured text source.

[novalis]

Your wish is my command

[corivax]

That is so awesome.

[novalis]

Yours is still much prettier. But using Processing was a great idea, and I had remembered processing.js, so...