John Venn's 180th Birthday. John Venn was a logician and philosopher best known for introducing the Venn diagram. In the diagram, circles are used to visually and logically sort groups to illustrate their relationships to each other. For example, one circle may contain things that are mammals. The other circle may contain things that have wings. The overlapping space that both circles occupy would consist of mammals that have wings. With a concept this simple, you would think it was all fun and games to design an interactive doodle for John Venn’s 180th birthday. How did the idea develop? Venn diagrams in general are naturally pretty fun. Early sketches played with a wide range of categories Eventually, I sat down with two of the doodle engineers, Corrie Scalisi (the engineer of this doodle) and Mark Ivey.
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