Really nice. The lasers really are magic. It's a magic wand. Action at a distance.

I have a tangential idea I'd like to share: What if we projected the pages of a book on the ceiling so you could read while lying on your back very comfortably. I have a hard time getting comfortable while reading, and this seems like an obvious solution.

On Mar 4, 2015, at 10:28 PM, Bret Victor wrote:

Now with the entire 238-page book, broken into chapters.

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Looks a bit better in person than in the video.  The thumbs are pretty small, and the wrapping isn't ideal (might be better wrapped to columns?), but it does give a nice "map" of the book.  You know exactly where you are, both within the chapter and within the book.  And jumping anywhere (including to the beginning of any chapter) is really easy and feels good.

(By the way, the weird vertical black line near the right side is due to a hanging string that's blocking the projector, which is holding up the Maxwell hanging-mobile-diorama thing.)

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