on 5 September 2003
What do you get if you cross a thesaurus with one of those fashionable floaty-clustery user interfaces? A pig’s breakfast, you speculate. But no, it’s the Visual Thesaurus.
Created by New York web monkeys Plumb Design as a showcase for their Thinkmap content navigation system, and based on Princeton University’s WordNet database, it’s ‘an online lexical reference system inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory’.
Like, what-ever. What it actually is is a vector-graphic front end that visualises synonymic relationships in a mouse-prodded bouncy mobile, with arms spidering off the fulcrum of your search term in a non-linear stylee.
There, we explained it much better. OK, you may want to stop reading this and go and look at it yourself.
adambanksdotcom @gbarl Bah, missed your Watchdog. Do they do it on iPlayer?