We love maps with lines and dots,
X marks places, paths, and spots.
But scrolling movies? No fun at all—
Just endless choices in one long crawl.
What if movies had a map?
Pick a path, tap, tap tap!
My map special, I decree.
Need not worry, you will see.
Every mind’s a garden bright,
tended gently, growing right.
See the shape and you will find
a little mirror of your mind.
Knot a Film is an application for visualizing the rotten tomatoes movie dataset more like a map. The project is migrating from traditional SwiftUI to a metal graphics pipeline
- Xcode 26 or later
- Swift 6.0+
- macOS 26+
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/ThyOwen/knot-a-film.git cd knot-a-film -
Open in Xcode:
- Open
Knot a Film.swiftpmin Xcode. - Build and run the project.
- Open
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First Launch:
- On first launch, the app may parse the dataset and initialize the database, or load the default.store.
Created by Owen O'Malley, 2025.

