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The Decameron Labyrinth
This is a prototype of an interactive 3D model of the Decameron based on the idea of the text as a topiary labyrinth (rather than a chapel, as the model Cosette showed yesterday since, as Boccaccio says, the stories of the D. are meant to be told in gardens, and not in churches or convent cloisters).
The classic unicursal circular shape would be the best for our immediate purpose to visualize the numeric "algorithm" of the text (10 stories x 10 days x 10 narrators) as a unicursal labyrinth that the reader can explore.
We hope in the future that such a visualization would enable us to better understand the "imperfect symmetries" internal to the text. Ideally, the model will be enriched with images for each story and be used as a dynamic "table of contents" for accessing the text - literally walking into the text as into a labyrinth-garden. Conceivably, the model could work as one of those old rotating wheels (selecting the narrator, one would be able to line up the story, day, perhaps the theme, etc.).
