Abbre­vi­ated Human (PDF, 157.3KB) was sub­mit­ted today. The PDF uses Type 1 fonts, and is hence best viewed on paper, but Acro­bat Reader does a fairly good job of ren­der­ing it nicely on screen. My rec­om­men­da­tion to the reader is to click “View” then “Page Lay­out” then select “Con­tin­u­ous — Fac­ing” in Acro­bat Reader, if your screen is suf­fi­ciently wide.

Fur­ther, if you want to print it, the best way to do this is as a double-sided doc­u­ment, as the page mar­gins alter­nate slightly to acco­mo­date for this.

The work is licensed under the Cre­ative Com­mons Attribution-NoDerivs License. Whilst the license per­mits repro­duc­tion for non-commerical pur­poses, I would per­son­ally pre­fer this did not occur exten­sively. A plain HTML ver­sion may be forth­com­ing at some point in the future.

Com­ments on this post are dis­abled for a rea­son — attempts to com­ment else­where will be deleted. I’m pub­lish­ing this work, not seek­ing feed­back. That stage has passed.

I’m using the Inter­net here as a uni­di­rec­tional medium because this work was never crafted as hyper­text, never meant to be part of an inter-related web of data rela­tion­ships, and has been trans­posed into this form inci­den­tally. I’m shar­ing this work, but not wish­ing for extrap­o­la­tion. Read what you will from it alone. I hope it is pow­er­ful and lucid enough to be appre­ci­ated as a piece of art, but I don’t wish to receive feed­back on it, be that crit­i­cism or praise. The work’s pur­pose was never that, and I hope it achieves some­thing greater than mere acknowl­edge­ment or a num­ber on a sheet of paper in a few months time.

Tags: Acrobat, HTML