Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2023 20:46:05 -0700
From: Bret Victor
Subject: Re: DNA bricks editor
Very cool! It made me think of, for showing z-depth, you could get a motorized fader and prop it up vertically on the table, and hook it up to a microcontroller or raspberry pi. As you dial the z up and down, the knob on the fader would move to the physically-correct height. (You could probably also show z-depth by leaning an ordinary dot frame at an angle, and projecting an ordinary line on it. But the actuator would be cooler.) I wonder if you could even do something where the page is lying flat on a tray, and the actuator moves the tray up and down, so the page itself is at the z-height....
> On Jun 7, 2023, at 11:03 AM, Luke Iannini <****************> wrote: > > The Apple presentation (which I felt obligated to watch to answer the inevitable questions on its relationship to DL) bummed me out so hard I had to vent the emotions into making something useful — here's a DNA bricks editor prototype I made in about 2 hours total yesterday and today, in 131 lines of code thanks to Realtalk and Scene Kit, made in a continuous conversation with the medium. > > [DNA bricks editor prototype.mkv] > >