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Topic: helix type reader 1... (Read 3166 times) |
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benelek
 
 
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Re: helix type reader 1...
« Reply #1 on: May 24th, 2003, 3:23am » |
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nice idea. the text becomes really easy to read in this format. what's your direction towards the "more complex" versions?
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arielm
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Re: helix type reader 1...
« Reply #2 on: May 24th, 2003, 9:29am » |
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i'm surprised that you find the text easier to read!... well, i mean it's a good surprise, because i was not researching in particular in the direction of readability...
more complex directions could be like in the following bit, called "babel fish tower 3":
http://www.chronotext.org/bits/019
6 layers of text sliding together... now, for an interactive text reader, we could have sliders and scrollbars to control the all thing!
some other direction?..
the shape of the text support could vary over time, like:
http://www.chronotext.org/bits/016
and, these robust slider and scrollbar classes:
http://www.chronotext.org/bits/022
will be glad to deform themselves accordingly...
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Ariel Malka | www.chronotext.org
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benelek
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Re: helix type reader 1...
« Reply #3 on: May 25th, 2003, 3:51pm » |
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016 strikes me as a clever one, seeing as it has to keep the length/spacing of the helix the same, while applying some funky movements.
actually, i found the text in 024 more readable when i manually scrolled backwards (thereby playing the text forwards). i suppose it relates to Fry's theories about the way we functionally understand a body of information. don't we all read the lines of a book as if each disappears off into a swirl once read? it's poetic, and maybe even speaks something about the way our imaginations work. maybe that's why it felt so easy to read.
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arielm
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Re: helix type reader 1...
« Reply #4 on: May 27th, 2003, 9:31pm » |
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hi benelek, (sorry to respond only today, i didn't see your message before!)
thanks for your feedback!
actually, 016 is not smarter than the others (i mean it has the same code, only different parameters): i'm trying to create type-support classes (not only helices, but in the future: splines, etc.) that can display properly-spaced text while their shape is being changed...
when you say that 024 "speaks something about how our imagination work"... it's exactly the direction of my work (much more than readability actually!)
i guess it will be clearer in my next bits of code (when we start recording the process of text creation, and re-mix it later...)
for now, i have a small overdose of helices, so i made this last one (concerning text reading) featuring another story from our pal Kierke:
http://www.chronotext.org/bits/025
now i start focusing on text writing:
http://www.chronotext.org/bits/026
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Ariel Malka | www.chronotext.org
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Re: helix type reader 1...
« Reply #5 on: May 28th, 2003, 11:44am » |
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arielm,
could you make a 200x200 pixel version of #26 that i could put in the examples section of the site?
+ casey
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arielm
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Re: helix type reader 1...
« Reply #6 on: May 28th, 2003, 2:54pm » |
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with great pleasure!
i'm starting working on it (if it's 200 x 200, i should try a bolder font than this version of Franklin Gothic)...
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Ariel Malka | www.chronotext.org
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Re: helix type reader 1...
« Reply #8 on: May 28th, 2003, 5:19pm » |
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Brilliant, thank you very much. I'll have it up by early next week.
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