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June 2015

Movie-map

by Bret Victor

A poster-scale video grid of Engelbart's 1969 demo, broken into chapters, and annotated with an transcript and our notes from a group-watching session.

A thumbnail can be lasered to start playing the video from that point on an iPad.

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The group's annotations act as landmarks in this map. I would "use" this poster by spotting someone's comment, lasering it to play the video from there, and then listening to the video while scanning the poster for a connected or related idea, usually in someone else's comment. I'd then jump the video to there, and scan for the next connection.

Bret later added a tangible handle to the generator program: Floppy disks, github, and tangible software (2015)

Robert made something different with the same material: Engelbart 1969 (2015)

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Hypercard in the World (2015) was our second spatial computing system, designed around blessing real objects in the world and putting programs on them.

It was preceded by Room OS (2015).

Things made in the system include:

Bigboard (2015) is the visible implementation of the system itself.

The Research gallery (2015) is a laserable poster of group projects that anyone can add to.

In the Dynamic Library (2015) books can be lasered and seen all at once.

The Seeing Spaces dynamic poster (2015) can be lasered to navigate the video.

The Serengeti (2015) is an active diorama. Lasered animals make sounds.

The Movie-map (2015) is another video in the form of a laserable poster.

Laser painting (2015) on the wall.

Minecraft lasers (2015) allows audience participation during a movie screening.

Ten games were made during the Laser game jam (2015).

Especially noteworthy games are Laser Socks (2015) and Mole Tank (2015).

Attempting Deep Work (2015) was another laser-participatory movie screening.

A computing system for dynamic spatial media (2015) summarizes the system and describes the initial stages of moving toward the next one.

When we watched movies or talks at CDG, we often would try some experiment to augment the experience, typically around "seeing the whole" or enhancing discussion.

Something about Cinematic Reality (2014) allows viewers to comment, diverge, and rejoin.

Vivarium Night (2015) brought together a set of experiments for seeking, discussion, and postcard-printing.

The Movie Nights poster (2015) shows which movies we've watched, or want to.

"Being in the World" in the world (2015) surrounds the screen with context about the chapters and characters, and led to a discussion on augmented viewing.

The Movie-map (2015) was generated from an augmented viewing session.

Minecraft lasers (2015) had a laser-powered audience-voting system.

Attempting Deep Work (2015) augments the screen with a map of the slide deck, and allows for scrubbing and bookmarking.

In An American Family (2015), all twelve episodes play simultanously.

Seeing an entire video, all at once.

Hemingway & Gellhorn poster (2014). Dave infects the lab.

Video grids (2014). Dave and Robert get into it.

Grid mosaics (2014). A lot going on here.

Hilbert video grids (2014). Space-filling grids.

The past is always with us (2015). Camera history grids.

Grids from the plane (2015). Multi-scale live grids.

Video binder (2015). Grids in a dynamic book.

Seeing Spaces dynamic poster (2015). A dynamic video comic.

Movie-map (2015). Grids with chapters and annotations.

Tangible video (2015). Grids for your fingers.

Power of Simplicity (2015). YouTube grids.

Crepe (2015). Grid-based time selection.

Pitch tracking hybrid timelines (2015) Multi-scale grids with pitch-tracked transcripts.

See also Video books.

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