This project enables storytelling in the style of the NYT "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek" article. We visualize and provide interaction along space, time and narrative structures. This was a warmup project for Niels Joubert's 2013 CURIS Students, teaching them a JavaScript stack (NodeJS with Backbone), Literate Programming, and Github etiquette.
Spatio-Temporal Narratives explore stories based around movement through space and time on the iPad
We extensively commented the code with explanations and elaborations. We suggest reading it from front-to-back in the order we wrote it - it isn't very much! - so kick it off with the server.js entrypoint! It's rendered in a literate programming style using docco-husky.
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The node.js server entrypoint is src/server.js
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The client entrypoint is src/public/client.js
All the text in this comes from the NYT boston bomber aticle. It is reproduced here purely for educational purposes to demonstrate a system.