About : The Computus Engine
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From the page: "he Computus Engine is an ongoing series of open source temporal tinkerings in Actionscript 3. The long term aim of the project is to build a Flash application for the interactive exploration of time.
The project and journal is the work of John Dalziel, a Flash Developer and writer based in the south coast of England. John studied astronomy at the Royal Greenwich observatory and is a charter member of the Long Now Foundation.
The Long now version:
Just before the millennium I started taking an interest in calendrical matters - Is it really the millennium? What happened to the year zero? All that kind of stuff. The thing is, it's a big subject and answering one question just raises a bunch of others. Well, just shy of ten years later I think I might have done enough digging to put this to some practical use.
Iâ€m imagining an interactive timeline that lets you zoom in and out of any period "
The project and journal is the work of John Dalziel, a Flash Developer and writer based in the south coast of England. John studied astronomy at the Royal Greenwich observatory and is a charter member of the Long Now Foundation.
The Long now version:
Just before the millennium I started taking an interest in calendrical matters - Is it really the millennium? What happened to the year zero? All that kind of stuff. The thing is, it's a big subject and answering one question just raises a bunch of others. Well, just shy of ten years later I think I might have done enough digging to put this to some practical use.
Iâ€m imagining an interactive timeline that lets you zoom in and out of any period "
