Take the text file of The Voyage of the Beagle and process the text in some way.
The Voyage of the Beagle is a diary of Charles Darwin, so I wanted something that related to evolution in some way. The design I settled on begins by taking a 100-letter chunk of the diary and scattering them on the screen inside of cells that are meant to resemble Amoebas. Similar letters are stacked on top of each other, and right when the program starts they spread out, mimicking the reproduction of cells. Each cell then attempts to find the letter that comes before it in the original sentence. The original intent was to bring to mind the idea of single cells joining to form a multicellular organism (a sentence). The actions of the cells also resemble the assembly of a strand of DNA, which was unexpected outcome.
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