http://www.madprime.org/articles/2009/09/08/exploretree-pretty-flowers en-us 40 <p>The New York Times has a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08flower.html">nice article on flower evolution today</a>.</p> <p>If you enjoy looking at evolutionary trees to see how closely related different living things are, you might enjoy playing with <a href="http://exploretree.org">ExploreTree</a>. I've added features that make it a lot more fun: the zooming in and out is animated, you can search for an organism and follow a path. Plus now, with a little help from Chris, it runs on a webpage (feel free to show it to friends &amp; family). Give it time to load, though.</p> <p>Here is a snapshot of the location illustrated in the NYTimes article:</p> <div align="center"> <IMG width=500 SRC=http://www.madprime.org/article_images/exploretree_snapshot.jpg> </div> <p>I've put off posting about the program for a while since I kept hoping to improve it a little more, but here it is. It was written in <a href="http://www.processing.org">processing</a>, you can get the code if you'd like to play with it here (or improve it!) <a href="http://github.com/madprime/exploretree/tree/master">on github</a>.</p> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:13:00 -0400 urn:uuid:46a13815-a477-4a18-8675-1af9130dcc8a Madeleine Ball http://www.madprime.org/articles/2009/09/08/exploretree-pretty-flowers programming genetics biology evolution exploretree