Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:08:42 -0500
From: Luke Iannini
Subject: Re: progress report 2022
That sounds great!! I think there's also something big to celebrate in there about Realtalk 2020 reaching a massive "done" milestone (with GPU Kit and Device Kit cleaning up the provisional versions with fully-fledged editions, allowing full OS live-swappability, along with our full workouts and overall developments of multi-site Realtalk, collaborating with Shawn via Distant Page, etc), paving the way for all the new capabilities we've been working on to be built fully "in Realtalk" on top. Shawn also began integrating Python DNA Origami tools with Guest Kit which might warrant a mention!

On Dec 13, 2022, at 9:46 PM, Bret Victor <****************> wrote:

A few more:

- shaders and Shadertoys
- Now that's what I call Realtalk Vol 2017
- catalogs and pieces
- Audio Kit



On Dec 13, 2022, at 2:05 PM, Bret Victor wrote:

Still feeling pretty covid-miserable, but it's getting to be the end of the year, and I think that sending out a progress report to pals and funders (that will also serve as a public progress report once we have the website) would be a nice year-end tradition to maintain.

I had originally thought that the website might be done by the end of the year and we'd be linking to that, but it turns out that publishing eight years of unprecedented work in a novel way will take a bit more time.  So this would be a pre-website progress report.

I don't exactly have a format in mind yet, but it might look like a scrapbook with a lot of photos and short captions under them.  (For the public version, the photos will all link into the archive, once we have the archive.)

I put together an initial outline of significant 2022 work.  Let me know if I left anything out, etc. 


Realtalk goes to the bio lab
- designing proteins
- designing DNA origami structures
- gel simulation
- electron microscopy simulation
- pipetting protocols
- Foresight talks

Realtalk goes to Europe
- London, Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Somerville

Dynalamp progress
- Dynalamp travel edition (suitcase)
- Dynalamp mini (Raspberry Pi 4 + case)
- Dynapad (Surface tablet)
- Steam Deck
- Device Kit, plug-and-play

Realtalk is an object
- Realtalk binders, one Realtalk per site
- comparing and syncing Realtalks

Realtalk progress: recognizing
- 3D object tracking
- 4K cameras
- tiny dots and tiny pages
- image-processing pipelines
- parameters and knobs
- shape matching
- text recognition

Realtalk progress: rendering
- Drawing Kit
- Print Kit
- Image Kit
- GPU Kit, live-editable
- Scene Kit
- Browser Kit

Dynamicland website in Realtalk
- front page
- archive website
- media album
- item cards
- paper websites
- video books