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This was an experiment in visually identifying word patterns and then moving them out to form phrases.
“VISUALIZE PATTERNS IN YOUR DATA” is encoded for this message. Each letter of each word is placed at a specific location. When the code hits that location it highlights the letter and once the complete word has been found it copies the word to the message area below the scan area.
I used multiple layers of the letters to simulate identifying and then moving a target letter to another part of the screen while keeping the original letter in the original spot.
This kind of viz could be expanded on quite a bit to represent searching through bodies of text to visually identify key terms. A categorizer could be added to sort words into bins.
A better way to enter phrases would be a great addition.
Warning: This does not work properly in Safari. The target letters for the phrase should move down below the scan line, but they don’t. They drop in at the beginning of the scan line. Not sure why.