An atlas of the fifty-five cities Marco Polo described to Kublai Khan
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Laying the foundations…
Sound is generated live — best with headphones.
Contents
Nine chapters. Eleven kinds of city, each told five times, braided in a descending pattern: every chapter opens a new thread and closes an old one. Click a city to travel there; click a chapter to read the conversation that follows it.
How to travel
drag orbit · right-drag pan · scroll zoom
click a city to visit it
←→ previous / next city in Marco’s order
↑↓ previous / next city of the same kind
123 Atlas · Journey · Chapters
T tour · C contents · N night · M sound · H hide interface · Esc back
Each diorama is generated procedurally in the browser from a few hundred lines of code. The texts are paraphrases written for this atlas; read the book itself (trans. William Weaver, 1974).