How to view the program?

[Pyros 0]

In AronRa's video series, he posted many screen shots of the phylogeny explorer. Is it possible for people outside the project to view the program (either in its current state or any other stage of development), or at least the cladogram? I've been looking around on the website, and the structure confuses me a little bit. Is viewing the program restricted to volunteers perhaps? I of course understand why editing would be restricted, but I'm wondering why viewing would be. Server capacity, perhaps?

[Staff 0]

Hi Pyros.

The project is in development and not in a state to present to the public currently. You are welcome to join the Facebook group of the 'Phylogeny Explorer Project' for updates and details and the new Website and shop will be up soon. You can visit a couple of sites that attempt to show cladograms of life, but they are mainly incomplete, limited or don’t generally include much extinct life. ITIS, OTOL and Onezoom are examples.

The examples used by Aron are old images, but similar to what we use. We will use something different for zooming out, because it clearly isn’t practical. Rather like trying to show all the geological time periods in one shot – you can’t as it would mean you can’t read or see anything. What is it that confuses you from his series?

Kind regards, Steve

[Pyros 0]

Nothing confused me from his series, the screenshots were just me reasoning that the program exists in some usable form. Thank you, Steve!