Ethan Mollick expands Portals to visualize Iain M. Banks' Culture universe, repo open-sourced
emollick · x · 2026-11-13
Ethan Mollick shared an expansion of his Portals project to visualize Iain M. Banks' Culture universe, adding GSVs and other signature elements beyond the single Banks world in the original 466-portal version. The project is open-sourced on GitHub, with a lively (and per Mollick, infuriating) comment section attached.
Related event: Ethan Mollick's Portals Project Extended to Visualize The Culture Novels(2 posts)→
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