Six Degrees of Black Sabbath
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undyingkingA fairly self-explanatory web app toy that does the connectivity thing with musical collaborations. Who would have thought that the shortest path from Pink Floyd to Men at Work passed through Roxy Music and Jethro Tull?
It's powered by the excellent MusicBrainz database, which I thoroughly recommend in its own right.
So far, after a handful of queries, the longest shortest chain I've found is 16, from the aforementioned Floyd to The Knife (which goes via Motorhead...). But I'm sure you can do much better.
The author's interesting (to me, at least) blog post about it is here.
It's powered by the excellent MusicBrainz database, which I thoroughly recommend in its own right.
So far, after a handful of queries, the longest shortest chain I've found is 16, from the aforementioned Floyd to The Knife (which goes via Motorhead...). But I'm sure you can do much better.
The author's interesting (to me, at least) blog post about it is here.
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Date: 2010-05-21 11:55 am (UTC)Mika to Roberto Zanetti is 30 steps. I'll stop now.
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