Gallery Layout in Borges’ Library of Babel

Year: 2015 Authors: Jonathan K. Millen

Core claim

A natural modification of Borges’ layout yields a connected, efficient, multi-floor hexagonal library in which neighboring galleries are never arbitrarily far apart.

Topics

Borges’ Library of Babel, hexagonal floor plans, graph connectivity, virtual 3-D model

Domains

geometry, graph theory, combinatorics, architecture, visualization, interactive media

Methods

floor-plan construction, path analysis, comparative layout examples, computer simulation

Media

hexagonal galleries, 3-D web model, screen shots

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