#wordcollider

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Inspired by visualizations of particle collisions at LHC CERN, wordcollider accelerate two phrases against each other on a collision course. The collision split the words up in their letters, their elementary particles, so to speak. After collision, wordcollider visualize a signature for each letter, based on their phonetic characteristics.

Wordcollider is the result of a processing workshop with Steffen Fiedler. steffenfiedler.com/

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Created by Moritz Heller, Wordcollider was inspired by visualizations of particle collisions at LHC CERN. The software created in Processing accelerate two phrases against each other on a collision course. The collision splits the words up in their letters – “their elementary particles”. After collision, wordcollider visualize a signature for each letter, based on their phonetic characteristics.

The software differentiates between the vowels, nasals, plosives, fricatives, approximates, trill consonants and special signs, giving them each a distinctive behaviour as they disperse from the collision.