Tanach Experiments

by David Komer

Various experiments with Tanach data — most use the GPU for fast parallel processing and a visual representation, plus some sound-based pieces.

Eye Candy

Letters Palette — view all the Tanach letters as colors
Word Hilight — highlight word matches across all of Tanach
Gematria Hilight — highlight gematria matches across all of Tanach
Ratio Draw — ratio-based colors for words

Ear Candy

Sound Buffer — fill a sound buffer with raw Tanach data
Sound Instrument — play a musical instrument driven by Tanach data

Command-line tool

tanach-calc is a gematria search CLI over the Tanach: print a verse or letter run, and search the whole text for gematria sequences — exact or accumulated (per-phrase), forward or reverse. It ships as a single self-contained binary with the dataset embedded.

Install (macOS / Linux):

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/dakom/tanach-experiments/releases/latest/download/tanach-calc-installer.sh | sh

Install (Windows, PowerShell):

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/dakom/tanach-experiments/releases/latest/download/tanach-calc-installer.ps1 | iex"

See the tanach-calc README for usage and all options.

Notes

You must be using a browser with WebGL support (most modern browsers qualify). Where flipping is available, the initial view is flipped horizontally to simulate right-to-left. To adjust resolution or hide scrollbars, resize the window and hit refresh. Source code is on GitHub.

Letters Palette

Touch	get the location in Tanach
Spacebar	pause / play animation
Up	isolate next letter
Down	isolate previous letter
1	regular
2	atbash
3	albam
F	flip horizontal

Colors a pixel for every letter in Tanach. You can isolate any letter and substitute all letters by atbash or albam. The palette starts from random assignments and animates at random speeds; pause any time. Sofits are distinct here (after tav come mem, nun, etc. in final form). The current letter is logged to the developer console.

Word Hilight

Touch	get the location in Tanach
Buttons	change colors and speed
Edit Value	manually set the current value
F	flip horizontal

Highlights word matches throughout all of Tanach, cycling from the first to the last word and resuming where it left off when paused/played. Searches per-word (not per-phrase).

Gematria Hilight

Touch	get the location in Tanach
Buttons	change colors and speed
Edit Value	manually set the current value
F	flip horizontal

Highlights gematria matches throughout all of Tanach, from lowest to highest value. Unlike Letters Palette, sofits are not distinct here (tav = 400 is the highest). Searches per-word (not per-phrase); the tanach-calc CLI above does per-phrase accumulation.

Ratio Draw

No controls. Currently set to Sofit-Atbash: the gematria of each letter, transposed in atbash, including the extra value for sofits.