Simple Reader
As we set out to design and build our readers, we began with the notion of a Simple Reader, one which simply moves through a piece of typographically sited text in the order of words prescribed by the standard practice of reading in the West. The underlying impetus was to create readers that had some of the characteristics of cellular automata, with rules that visualized reading strategies. In order to do this, we first had to develop a concept of typographic neighborhood (follow the link for more on this topic). Then we began to design readers that diverged in terms of a viable pathway based on linguistic properties and relationships between words that had been read and words in their neighborhood that might be read.