Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 10:06:36 -0800
From: Dave Cerf
Subject: Re: timelines/terrains
It may or may not help, but I am impressed by the real-time Hilbertizing you pulled off. What I struggled to see here was the Hilbert pattern forming in the background—but even when the video is near full-size, is it moving in a Hilbert trajectory? Maybe if the images were more transparent when they were near full-size, I could see the formation of the small cells in the background.

I am reminded of our other discussion regarding “peeking” underneath something, both in regards to quoted text and the hand-flipping animation technique. Your video made me wish I could peek under the layers obscuring the final Hilbert grid underneath.

I was just thinking about rack focus as a method of changing interface “focus.” Perhaps this is just skeuomorphism and I should be fired along with Scott Forstall. Is the desire to bring familiar and comforting interfaces from the “real world” to screens and keyboards inherently regressive?


On Dec 4, 2014, at 7:07 PM, Robert M Ochshorn wrote:

On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:57 PM, Dave Cerf wrote:

to better track with my eye what is going on

This may not help:

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