[aspenmayer]

Reminds me of the Library of Babel for some reason:

https://libraryofbabel.info/referencehex.html

> The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries…The arrangement of the galleries is always the same: Twenty bookshelves, five to each side, line four of the hexagon's six sides…each bookshelf holds thirty-two books identical in format; each book contains four hundred ten pages; each page, forty lines; each line, approximately eighty black letters

> With these words, Borges has set the rule for the universe en abyme contained on our site. Each book has been assigned its particular hexagon, wall, shelf, and volume code. The somewhat cryptic strings of characters you’ll see on the book and browse pages identify these locations. For example, jeb0110jlb-w2-s4-v16 means the book you are reading is the 16th volume (v16) on the fourth shelf (s4) of the second wall (w2) of hexagon jeb0110jlb. Consider it the Library of Babel's equivalent of the Dewey Decimal system.

https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi?jeb0110jlb-w2-s4-v16:1

I would leave the existing functionality and site layout intact and maybe add new kinds of data transformations?

Maybe something like CyberChef but for color or art tools?

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

[syndicatedjelly]

Library of Babel captivated me as a student learning programming for the first time. I couldn't even fathom how something like that could be made in real/virtual life.

I understand it now, but I still aspire to recreate this site on my own one day. The story by Borges is amazing as well too

[aspenmayer]

You may already be familiar with these, but in case you're not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

> One of the earliest instances of the use of the "monkey metaphor" is that of French mathematician Émile Borel in 1913, but the first instance may have been even earlier. Jorge Luis Borges traced the history of this idea from Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption and Cicero's De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift, up to modern statements with their iconic simians and typewriters. In the early 20th century, Borel and Arthur Eddington used the theorem to illustrate the timescales implicit in the foundations of statistical mechanics.

https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/

BadAppleFont

> In this post we explorer the idea to embed a animation into a font. We do this using the new experimental wasm shaper in Harfbuzz.

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317055

[Aerroon]

It has captivated me too. At one point I realized that the set of real numbers will probably do the same (or a creative use of the set of natural numbers).

[syndicatedjelly]

Let me know if you’re interested in working on a Library of Babel OSS implementation ever, would love to share the work with someone as fascinated by the concept as I am!

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[aspenmayer]

Found a couple for reference:

https://github.com/tdjsnelling/babel

https://github.com/cakenggt/Library-Of-Pybel

And here's an API for using the site:

https://github.com/victor-cortez/Library-of-Babel-Python-API

Then there's whatever this is:

https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Witness-of-Babel