[self-interest] Quiet in Self land?

Stephen De Gabrielle spdegabrielle at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 09:34:07 UTC 2014


Is the a list of 'jobs that need doing'? On the wiki?

I'm back studying PT and working FT, but might be able to squeeze out some
time for small jobs as a way of learning self.

I'd also love to know if Korzs will be released into the wild?

Stephens

On Tuesday, 16 September 2014, Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh at kathe.in
[self-interest] <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> On 2014-09-16 12:47, Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','casey.obrien.r at gmail.com');>
> [self-interest] wrote:
> > Interesting, timely idea: Juan Vuletich just released a sneak-peek[1]
> > at his new vector-based Morphic implementation. The renderer is
> > currently written in Smalltalk -- so, slow -- but the idea is that
> > we're going to adapt it to Slang so it can be translated as a VM
> > plugin in C. The most interesting thing is, his algorithm[2] is
> > unique. It's based on signal processing theory, and provides crisper
> > rendering than anything I know of currently on or off of the market.
> > One of the goals behind the work is to realize a truly zoomable user
> > interface. Do you think that a zooming interface free of pixel
> > complications would make the large contiguous Self world easier and
> > more pleasant to navigate? I do! Forget the desktop pager if I can
> > just zoom out, right?
>
> based on what-ever (little) i know about "self", and my interactions
> with mr. j raskin, i would suggest staying away from a zooming interface
> for a "self"-like project.
>
> a zoomworld, as was described by mr. raskin would be more apt where you
> want to drill down into _knowledge_, which isn't the case with "self".
>
> do correct me if you feel my assumptions are wrong.
>
> ~mayuresh
>
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