The search engine has paid tribute to the writer's undersea novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea with an interactive doodle featuring an ocean scene viewed through the portholes of a submarine. iPad and iPhone users who tilt their device can watch the water level move in any direction they wish. People with a traditional desktop computers can also interact with the doodle by moving the joystick on the right hand-side of the logo. This changes the view through the submarine windows to include different views of marine life. It is perhaps fitting that the Frenchman, who pioneered the science fiction genre, is the subject of such an innovative design.
Jules Verne is best known for novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air and underwater travel before air travel or practical submarines had been invented, and is thought to be the third most translated author in the world. He is popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction" and would have been 183 today. As a young man Verne initially studied law but when his father discovered that he spent most of his time writing stories and librettos he withdrew his support. Instead he supported himself as a stockbroker although he didn't much enjoy the job.
Google has introduced a limited number of interactive doodle designs. The first fully interactive one was produced in May last year to celebrate the 30th birthday of Pac-Man with the character able to be moved by pressing arrow keys on the user's keyboard.
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