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Stretchtext, the braid, thread letters and net this site runs on, and the pulsar plot from Unknown Pleasures.
Stretchtext
Ted Nelson's 1967 idea of text that expands in place into a longer version of itself.
6 built · grew into cc-stretch
Braid
Three strands, one per kind of work, twisted down the margin; each piece hangs off its strand, and what grew from what climbs it as a vine.
7 built
Thread letters
Titles set in fonts whose strokes are the braid's threads; a pluck shakes every stroke at once.
6 built
Net
A woven net in the margins: a hand catches its threads, a press tears it, and it knits back.
7 built
Unknown Pleasures
The first pulsar's pulses, plotted one below the next as on Joy Division's sleeve, each line hiding what is behind it.
17 built