Recent projects, Start 2016

History wikidata visualisation: ellipse > line. [Start]
Also first time tinkering with SVG.

New Threejs demo is online. Now with textures,
details, skybox aaand.. hamburger menu. [Start]

Web folding editor with syntax highlighting
for mobile and desktop. [Start]

Wikidata Historymaps

The project fetches history data from wikidata (with time/location) and displays them using google maps. Data fetching starts with a person (i.e. its wididata id) and recursivly loads a number of data of ancestor and descendants. Places of historic events are clickable markers, where a description window can be shown. There are lines drawn between places of a persons history and between places of ancestors to descendants.

► Niklot
► Henry the Lion

Some interesting aspects from a programming perspective: the wikidata barcode logo is 'wiki' in morse code (ref). Wikimedia commons image urls are of the form a/ab/(filename), where 'ab' are the first characters of the md5 hash of the filename.

Rantzau Genealogy

Frantz von Rantzau 1606-1677

Hans Danielsen von Rantzau 1567-1649

Daniel Rantzau 1534-1589

Henning Rantzau 1495-1537

Schack Rantzau 1445-1510

Christian Rantzau 1649-1704

Hans zu Rantzau 1693-1769
removes serfdom

Schack Carl Rantzau
Movie "A royal affair"

Henning Rantzau 1395-1470

Henneke Rantzau 1375-1397

Henneke Rantzau 1335-1390

Otto IV Rantzau -1398

Otto III Rantzau 1310-1362

Otto II Rantzau

Cai I Rantzau -1340

Cai II Rantzau -1397

Breide Rantzau -1440

Heinrich Rantzau 1437-1497

Johann Rantzau 1492-1565

Heinrich Rantzau 1526-1599

Gerhard zu Rantzau 1558-1627

Christian zu Rantzau 1613-1663

Detlef zu Rantzau 1644-1697

Wilhelm Adolf zu Rantzau 1688-1734
builds church

Image by PodracerHH

Recently I watched the very nice movie "A royal affair", which has a character called "Rantzau". A local church was also build by a "Rantzau" and I wondered, how they are connected. Wikipedia, a PDF, google books and the website seel.info finally reconstructed the links between the two. The internet stays awesome. :)