Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 22:00:13 -0500
From: Chaim Gingold
Subject: Re: apparatus biking
Another solution would be to keep the bike static but indicate motion via translation of  background scenery. E.g. Mario appears to run but occupies a fixed place on screen while the background moves behind him.



On Oct 5, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Bret Victor wrote:

This seems to work:

http://aprt.us/editor/?load=http://worrydream.com/oatmeal/bike-points-of-view.json

(I had to add 

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

to my .htaccess file on my web server)


On Oct 5, 2015, at 12:14 PM, Bret Victor wrote:

I figured out what was bugging me about Paula's bicycle in Apparatus, which was that I wanted to pedal it (by dragging the pedal around with the mouse), but you can't do that easily because the bike moves out from under you.

<Bike points-of-view.json.zip>

<bike.mp4>