May 2015

Seeing Spaces dynamic poster

by Bret Victor

The Seeing Spaces talk, redesigned as a 5-foot wall poster comic, then turned into a dynamic video map.

Laser a panel to start playing the video from that point. The highlighted panel acts as a playhead, lighting up as the video progress.

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Explanation excerpted from the annotated video Hypercard in the World (2016).

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Later: Video books (2022)

Making of:

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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.

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.