The complex music and violent dance steps depicting fertility rites first drew catcalls and whistles from the crowd. At the start with the opening bassoon solo, the audience began to boo loudly due to the slight discord in the background notes behind the bassoon’s opening melody. There were loud arguments in the audience between supporters and opponents of the work. These were soon followed by shouts and fistfights in the aisles. The unrest in the audience eventually degenerated into a riot. The Paris police arrived by intermission, but they restored only limited order. Chaos reigned for the remainder of the performance, and Stravinsky himself was so upset on account of its reception that he fled the theater in mid-scene, reportedly crying.

the internet is fantastic. you can explore an effectively infinite space while eating pringles. some rooms of the giant jungle gym have leaves, some have ferns, and some have animated gifs of baby jesus. you never know precisely what you’ll find, and there’s enough that the joy of discovery rarely fades… but you can still have at least some say in where the results go, leaving you feeling comfortably in control.

the jungle gym that is the web is N-dimensional… well, more like a giant network of boxes you could climb around and explore. many sites – this one included – link to more than 6 sites, giving them more than six degrees of freedom. this means the space must have more than three dimensions. this has a ceiling of infinite links to infinite sites, but that’s kind of hard to do in practice. so, i’m just calling it N-dimensional due to the presumption that a given site will be somewhere between some and maNy.

pages are chained together, little pageclaves in the giant jungle gym. most pageclaves have a purpose: sell books, confuse the book-buying consumer, blogging about either of the aforementioned book-related topics. you name it, there’s likely between one and many pageclaves covering it… but there would, likely be fewer pages about blogging about blogging about any of the aforementioned three book-related topics… this is interesting, my brain is translating that referential recursion of probability as a chain of decaying slopes. i’ll have to look into this avenue of research more… later.

anyways, many web pages today are dynamicly generated. the server gets this post from a database, gets the template from the drive, and mashes the two together according to some computer programs written in PHP. if you think about this, you realize that rather than designing a single web page, the programmer is specifying an entire SET of web pages. this page, for example, is the set of every possible blog post as rendered by the template we are using: an infinite number of pages. if you expand our definition to include the programmatic features, such as switching templates, the set size would become an even larger infinity (lol mathematics).

the great-grandaddy set, of course, is the set of every page ever possible. it’s theoreticly possible to code up something that has the potential to specify this set using some bastardization of turing machines and perl, but most programmers settle for something a little less painful to define: a smaller infinity of web pages, or even a finite set.

here are some DYNAMIC web pages:

http://www.qtard.com/
http://www.strangebanana.com/generator.aspx
http://www.superbad.com/
http://randomwebsite.com/
http://www.ricedoutyugo.com/headerimg/
http://www.perl.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://wizardishungry.com/
http://www.ricedoutyugo.com/wtf/
http://www.chinscratcher.com/
http://www.actsofkindness.org/
https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
http://www.fxbox.110mb.com/

remember: when in doubt,  use F5.

Further visual representations of failure can be seen on the Fail Blog.

Jared Tarbell programmed the terrifically complex looking Offspring, a visualization of the pair bonding process of a theoretical robot colony. Tarbell says:

Each robot is assembled, ages through youth, comes into a reproductive stage, and eventually dies of fatigue. If a robot is lucky enough to find a mate during it’s reproductive stage, baby robots may be assembled.Visually, the Offspring image is a historic graph of robot colony size and distribution. Males of the population are represented by single horizontal lines while Females are shown as double lines. The vertical position of the line indicates the robot’s time of assembly, and the horizontal position of the line shows it’s location in an abstract physical space. Faint diagonal lines connect parent and child. In this manner, older generations of robots are shown on the bottom of the image while their descendents are supported above them.

Visualizer Chris Harrison feeds the names of people and places in the bible (i.e. the collections of canonical religious writings of Judaism and of Christianity) to make these cross-referenced networks. This is a close-up, you can see the full visualization beneath the fold:

Click to see the medium-sized version (1.4 MB):

Harrison says:

I set out to derive a new data set from the Bible, one that would capture relationships between people and places – essentially a biblical social network. The first thing I had to do was build a list of biblical names – Wikipedia already had a comprehensive one (2619 names!). Using this list, I parsed the text of the King James Bible. When two names occurred in the same verse, a connection between those two entities was created. To make this information visually meaningful, I ran the network of connections through my WikiViz engine, which caused highly connected groups of entities to coalesce. I through it would be fitting to render the visualization using an “old world” color scheme.

He also has a number of other biblical visualization in his collection of Web pages hosted on the Internet.