Comment by c-fe
1 year ago
Im slightly surprised mine won 3rd place, I believe they liked my simplicity and visualisation. Hosted at https://isbnviz.pages.dev
But honestly, I find both of these better: - https://bwv-1011.github.io/isbn-viewer/ - https://anna.candyland.page/map-sample.html
in particular the one from bwv is technically similar but just all around better than mine, it is what I would want mine to be
I'm also surprised that I got 3rd place.
But in terms of comparison of yours to bwv, I don't agree that bwv's is technically superior in every way. It lacks comparison, ISBN selection and link creation. bwv's main focus looks to be that one feature to highlight the rare books without trying to get the other requirements that AA wanted.
Congrats to you too! Indeed, I think they could have improved the visual and comparison part, its a bit dark and not too interesting to look at. But I am envious of how smooth their tiling is. My tiles are 4096x4096 which allows me to satisfy both the 20,000 file limit and the max 20mb file limit imposed by cloudflare. I had some issues with smaller tiles, and wanting to host it on cloudflare restricted me from doing 512x512 tiles iirc. Also I really like that they extracted the publisher information and put that as a pmtile vector, thats something I attempted but ultimately ran out of time with.
What is it that make yours and bws' have a floating island with spain/italy/++ in addition to them being represented in the main blob?
Its due to how those ISBN ranges were handed out - I think they probably gave a block like 978-53 (for example) to those countries, meaning the right to distributed ISBNs 978-530-000-000 to 978-539-999-999 and then later they ran out or had all subblocks distributed to publishers, and then they got a new block further away (so not 978-54 in my example) and therefore those blocks are not numerically close to each other and thus also they are separate "islands" in the hilbert space.
I see, thanks for explaining. Cool that your visualization then shows these idiosyncrasies!
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I’m glad you said that, because I was also surprised by the fact that the bwv-1011 only made it to honorable mention even though its technical focus was on visualizing the rarity of books, which ostensibly was the primary objective of the whole effort.
I really like that your page talks about _why_ a Hilbert curve is good. I don't remember ever learning about those before, and now hopefully if I'm ever trying to visualize 1D data, I might remember that :)