October 2022

Video books

by Bret Victor

Videos printed as a multicolumn transcript with images. Playable in Realtalk or on the web.

The current line of the transcript is highlighted as a playhead, and you can seek by pointing to the transcript with a laser pointer.

0:50

All of the “publication” videos on this website, including those on the front shelf, are video books in the real world.


Video of the initial prototype.

15:31

Later: the full collection with a better web player, in Publications (2023).


Earlier: Seeing Spaces dynamic poster (2015) and other Video grids are also about seeing and navigating an entire video at once.

Making of.