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.
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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.
