L-DNA examples

What follows is a small collection of graphical representations of the Literary DNAs (L-DNAs) of both textual works (corpora) and their authors.

Each one of these graphical L-DNA representations (graphos) are made by placing in certain order colored pixels next to each other until a squared picture of 122,500 pixels is formed. Each one of the pixels represents a style or syntactic grammar parameter that has been measured by the Literary DNA Tools for the corpus. The color, tint and position of each pixel in the grapho are related to the nature of the gramatical parameter the pixel represents and its measured value.

In addition to graphical representations for first quick visual inspections and comparisons, L-DNAs are also generated in the form of comprehensive documents that list the values of all the parameters measured, calculated and compared by the Literary DNA Tools.

Graphical representation of “Corpus L-DNA” of novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
Graphical representation of “Author L-DNA” of Jane Austen extracted from a comparison of the Corpus L-DNAs of 6 of her novels (“Emma”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “Sense and Sensibility”, ” Persuasion”, “Mansfield Park”, ” Northanger Abbey”)
Graphical representation of “Corpus L-DNA” of novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

Graphical representation of “Author L-DNA” of Lewis Carroll extracted from a comparison of the Corpus L-DNAs of 8 of his novels (“Through the Looking-Glass”, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, “The Hunting of the Snark”, “The Game of Logic”, “A Tangled Tale”, “Symbolic Logic”, “Sylvie and Bruno”, “Feeding the Mind”)

Graphical representation of “Corpus L-DNA” of novel “Islands of Space” by John Wood Campbell, Jr.
Graphical representation of “Author L-DNA” of John Wood Campbell, Jr. extracted from a comparison of the Corpus L-DNAs of 6 of his novels (“The Black Star Passes”, “Invaders from the Infinite”, “Islands of Space”, “The Last Evolution”, “The Ultimate Weapon”)

What follows is an overview of the above examples of corpus and author L-DNAs next to each other to visually appreciate similarities and differences. While it is difficult to spot obvious differences for Corpus L-DNAs depicted in this size, when we look at the three Author L-DNAs we see right away that they are quite different. When a human eye looks at the 122,500 color pixels forming the square grapho that shows the values of these 122,500 style and syntactic grammar parameters measured inside their books, even at this tiny size representation the differences are very obvious! We are without doubt glancing at AL-DNAs of different writers!!

“Pride and Prejudice”“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”“Islands of Space”
“Jane Austen”“Lewis Carroll”” John W. Campbell, Jr.”