The preservation of favoured traces, new piece from Ben Fry, is about evolution, the evolution of the book which talks about evolution: On The Origin of the Species from Charles Darwin.
Taking the six editions of the book, Ben Fry makes a timeline marking all the changes in the words among different editions, making visible the evolution of the book itself.
All the data is taken from the Charles Darwin’s work online dataset, by Dr. John van Wyhe, et al.
As usual, I love the simplicity of Fry’s work and the conceptual charge always present on it.
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