{"id":2058,"date":"2010-03-13T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2010-03-13T14:26:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T22:26:42","slug":"mapping-the-gnarl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/mapping-the-gnarl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Gnarl"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found an interesting page <\/a>that creates a free map of a webpage, such as this blog page, on the fly. The applet was made by an energetic Stanford grad student named Marcel Salath\u00c3\u00a9<\/a>. Here\u2019s a shot of one version of the map of www.rudyrucker.com\/blog. Those \u201cflowers\u201d\u009d at the top left are the individual posts on the top page of my blog which is, I think, the main page that is being mapped. That dandelion of yellow dots is, I think, for the comments boxes.<\/p>\n

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I got curious about website maps this morning because a 78-year old lady from the Pacific Northwest sent me a link to her sprawling website called “Hello Out There”<\/a>, which documents some of her notions and illuminations regarding synchronicity. She also maintains a blog called “Me, On This Planet”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Focusing on the \u201cHello Out There\u201d\u009d site, I kept finding new links among her rather interesting observations and anecdotes, and I was curious if I could find an app to make an on-the-fly diagram of a website. When I put the page into Salath\u00c3\u00a9\u2019s mapper, the process went on and on, in a visually interesting but not all that useful way. <\/p>\n

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Be that as it may, the webmapper is cool, and so is “Hello Out There.”<\/p>\n

Speaking of synchronicity, I found a piece of eucalyptus bark shaped like a Zhabotinsky scroll on my back deck the other day! Longtime readers of mine will know of my love for this ubiquitous and naturally occurring shape.<\/p>\n

In fact my memoir, due out in 2011, is scheduled to be called Nested Scrolls<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The Zhabo scrolls graphic above was made with the CAPOW software that I wrote with my SJSU computer science students with a grant from EPRI, the software is still available as a free download <\/a>online, and features a nice screensaver mode.<\/p>\n

CAPOW works with Windows platforms up through XP, and I plan to check it out on Windows 7 soon\u2014I\u2019m scheduled for some upgrades to my hardware, software and wetware in the coming weeks. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found an interesting page that creates a free map of a webpage, such as this blog page, on the fly. The applet was made by an energetic Stanford grad student named Marcel Salath\u00c3\u00a9. Here\u2019s a shot of one version of the map of www.rudyrucker.com\/blog. Those \u201cflowers\u201d\u009d at the top left are the individual posts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}