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Software is complex, intangible, and beautiful. Built with code, it is a material not everyone understands that is spread across countless folders and files. For many people it's as if reading hieroglyphics. Whether we're aware of it or not, the technology we use every day is complicated, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be impossible to understand. Exploring Hidden Worlds is an example of what it takes to build modern software and the complexity of code.
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We are becoming more dependent on technology, and yet fewer people know how it works. Software should not be
created behind closed doors especially when it can have larger ramifications on our day-to-day lives.
Exploring Hidden Worlds aims to lift the veil on what it takes to build modern software through an
explorable 3D visualization. Through learning what it takes to build modern software,
and having the ability to understand it people can have more agency when deciding whether to adopt new,
potentially harmful, technologies
Created by Matt Blanco as a Honors in the Discipline project at Northeastern
University, the project combines software engineering with information design to create something beautiful but
usable.
Building off of an idea from 2020, the project explores how software can look different posing the question: what
does it mean to code?.