Comments on: A Visual History of Film Genres

By: JoseAngel

JoseAngel — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:50:38 +0000

Got it. Distracted by black links.

By: JoseAngel

JoseAngel — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:47:34 +0000

But can anyone actually read it? I only get to a fuzzy unreadable image. Please post instructions.

By: The Ludologist » A Visual History of Genres and Platforms

The Ludologist » A Visual History of Genres and Platforms — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:20:11 +0000

[…] A Visual History of Genres and Platforms Only the other day we were discussing the possibility of creating a history of game genres by parsing data. […]

By: Jesper

Jesper — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:44:39 +0000

@Mark The programming language map is nice, but I wonder if it is a bit limited in terms of inspiration. For example, Basic only leads to VB.Net and isn’t inspired by anything.

The argument map is quite interesting.

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:45:38 +0000

@Jesper I've seen this poster from O'Reilly in the halls of several computer-science departments. They credit some diagrams by Éric Lévénez with inspiring it. On a related topic (summary diagrams I've seen in the halls of CS departments), there's a company that produced a series of posters mapping out the "can computers think?" debate in a form they call "argument mapping". It's a bit more like a flow-chart than something that gives you a real visual overview of the debate at a glance, though. Maybe more like a concise choose-your-own-adventure way of summarizing.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:30:15 +0000

@Mark Yes, that book is also quite interesting!
I was wondering if anyone has tried to make a visual history of programming languages?

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:28:05 +0000

Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005) is an interesting set of studies in this direction. Though judging by reviews of his book in literary-theory journals, it seems there is still quite a lot of resistance to writing histories in this way.

By: Visual histories of genre | jill/txt

Visual histories of genre | jill/txt — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:17:31 +0000

[…] Juul has become interested in visualisations of genre histories, and in a blog post yesterday he both showed the above visualisation of the history of film genres, based on 2000 US films, and […]

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:00:12 +0000

Anyone found a way yet to download the full original image file?

By: Jesper

Jesper — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:55:09 +0000

@Steve @Frederik I like the idea of making histories like this automatically, but I think that it in many ways is even more interesting to deliberately design one subjectively. The problem with the data-based systems is that the weighting of the parameters can only be arbitrary decisions.
The more subjective designs like the one above force you to more openly consider and state how you are weighing parameters against each other.