Welcome to Webland


Introduction

Webland is an experiment in Spatial HyperText. Web browsers can rearrange land masses, add trees or roads, etc., or even "claim" a plot of land for themselves. By claiming a plot of land, anybody who clicks on that square will be transported to the web page specified in the claim.

In order to change the map, or claim a plot for yourself, simply click on the desired square, and submit the form for changing land. Changes are handled automatically, and are immediately visible.

Web Land is actually a torus, that revolves and rotates as shown in this MPEG (380K) created by John Bomberger using matlab and a matlab-to-mpeg movie converter.

Clicking on the direction names above the map will allow you to move around the map to the North, South, East or West.

Enter Web Land

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Specs

Web land is currently a 64 x 64 square 2-Dimensional surface, which wraps around at the each of the four boundaries. It can be pictured as a torus (see the mpeg above).

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