I built ARES over a single weekend for Earth Day 2026, as a way to make the scale of human conflict impossible to look away from. It's an interactive visualizer spanning 3000 BCE to the present, built on 23,000+ records I scraped from Wikipedia and structured into a single timeline of war.
Every conflict is plotted, classified by type — territorial, civil, religious, colonial, genocide, revolution, independence — and rendered as particles and heatmaps across a turning globe, with a running count of estimated deaths that climbs as you move through history. Click any point and the original Wikipedia entry surfaces alongside it.
The premise is simple: most of it was avoidable. ARES isn't a war archive so much as an argument — a record of how much we've spent on struggle, laid bare in one continuous view, on the one day we set aside to think about what we owe the planet and each other.
