(And Why We’re Not There Yet)
There’s a fascinating article in the New York Times today about Paul Otlet, who in 1934 sketched out plans for a network of computers that would allow people to search through a global archive of interlinked documents. Though his system at the time was just a mechanical, albeit very robust card […]

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Just playing around with Actionscript 3.0 movement and animation. I figure it could be of use on those days when I don’t really feel like writing a new blog entry — just crank this baby up and […]

After a week of being sick I can barely remember what I was working on so I’ll just pick up from the last post. This time around we’re taking our typographical sine wave and display it as a Flash movie using Papervision3D and Actionscript 3.
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I’ve been doing some experiments with typographical projections onto a mathematical 3d surface. This comes from some thoughts I had after reading some basic work on topology. The idea is that a given constructed body of text — or even collection of ideas, can have a different inferred meaning depending on one’s situation to the piece.