The duo liken their approach to visualising the "shape" of humanity's natural languages to the envisioning of DNA as a double helix.
"The double helix of DNA and structure of virus particles are by now familiar as images that circulate widely," their paper reads. "By contrast, the shape of humanity's natural languages, and their high-dimensional form mostly remain to be explored and modelled as visual material."
"The contemporary software we have at our disposal and methods for digital design allow us to visualise the natural forms of human language."