The Comedy of Errors

Realised

(03/24)

Following E.K. Chambers chronology1 The Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's 5th drama.

Consisting of 625 tiles in the basic colour blue, with a side length of 10 cm, the work is a square of 250 * 250 cm in the basic file. It's planned to be printed in 125 * 125 cm.

Rulebook

(09/23)

Tiles

Number

The Comedy of Errors contains 611 text blocks according to the general set of rules (608 speaker-based and 3 blocks created by division, as the text contains more than 34 lines). The number of tiles of the work is determined (due to the defined quadratic work) by the root of the text blocks rounded up to an integer. This results in 25 x 25 = 625 tiles. The resulting 14 tiles not occupied by text are created with the basic colour of the work 255-0-0 blue and inserted every 44 tiles, beginning at the 27th position.

Text Alignment

The alignment of the tiles according to the Rulebook of William Shakespeare's Plays is as follows:

centre-center 14%
centre-left 8%
centre-right 11%
top-centre 12%
top-centre 9%
top-right 12%
bottom-centre 12%
bottom-left 9%
bottom-right 13%

Background Colour

The applied background colour for The Comedy of Errors is 255-0-0 blue.

Applying the colour matching rule set Rulebook results in 321 different colour values.

Text and bar colour

Applying the font colour rule set Rulebook results in 394 different colour values.
2580 lines of text were coveblue with bars. On average, each tile contains 4,2 lines of text.