Study01
Quantum Word Clouds
An experiment in showing a word's prominence as unsettled rather than fixed, using shifting probabilities and co-occurrence to surface more than one reading of a corpus.
Data Viz Experiments
Work in Progress
A preview of experiments and studies in visualizing literary data: lyrics as geometry, language as signal, and words as quantum-inspired states.
PreviewOngoing experiments. The full interactive versions will launch in the LiteraryDJ web app.
Study02
Lyrical Torus Knots
An experiment in visualizing a corpus of music lyrics. Each artist's lyrics are measured and drawn as a knot whose shape reflects four qualities of their language.
Concept & initial design
Created as coursework for MITH388 at the University of Maryland. Under continued development by the LiteraryDJ team.
Liner NotesPrototyping Lyrical Torus KnotsRead Arshad’s process piece →Rendering artist geometry…
- Semantic breadthRadius
- 6.6
- Linguistic densityTube
- 2.1
- Smoothness / punchinessTubular segments
- 56
- Structure & rhythmp / q · flower
- 4/10
Study03
Text-Based Waveforms
A study of language as signal: rhythm, repetition, sentence length, and word density drawn as a moving waveform.
Type here: the bars change as you type.
71/100 characters
NounVerbAdjectiveAdverbFunction / other
Height = characters · 1 at floor, 12+ at full scale
Study04
Literary Bloch Spheres
A study borrowing the visual grammar of quantum computing to show a passage as a state between two readings rather than a fixed point.
State is 79 percent Whitman and 21 percent Dickinson.