Alice’s Adventures
After Wonderland:
Visualizing Alice
in the
Digital Era
1.Alice’s Adventures under Ground online
2.Juxta, Voyant, TextArc, and Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland
3.Graphing Alice
New Ways to View Alice:
Juxta, Voyant, and TextArc
“I first drew that Chart in order to clear up my own ideas
on the subject, finding it very troublesome to retain a
distinct notion of the changes that had taken place.
I found it answered the purpose beyond my expectation,
by bringing into one view the result of details that are
dispersed over a very wide and intricate field of universal
history; facts sometimes connected with each other,
sometimes not, and always requiring reflection each time
they were referred to”
William Playfair
(quoted by Lev Manovich in “What is Visualization”)
1. When does she grow?
2. Why does she grow?
3. How does she grow- food, gloves, etc?
4. What height is she the longest?
““she felt a little nervous about this; ‘for it might end, you
know’ said Alice to herself, ‘in my going out altogether, like a
candle. I wonder what I should be like then?’ And she tried
to remember what the flame of a candle looks like after the
candle is blown out, for she could not remember having seen
such a thing” (AiW 12)
“her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there
was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last,
and managed to swallow a morsel of the left-hand bit
*
*
*
‘Come, my head’s free at last!’ said Alice in a tone of
delight’” (AiW 42)
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