<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Can you be more specific? I read Raskin's book, but I'm not sure what you're trying to say. </div><div><br>On Sep 16, 2014, at 2:23 AM, "Mayuresh Kathe <a href="mailto:mayuresh@kathe.in">mayuresh@kathe.in</a> [self-interest]" <<a href="mailto:self-interest@yahoogroups.com">self-interest@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p>On 2014-09-16 12:47, Casey Ransberger <a href="mailto:casey.obrien.r@gmail.com">casey.obrien.r@gmail.com</a> <br>
[self-interest] wrote:<br>
> Interesting, timely idea: Juan Vuletich just released a sneak-peek[1]<br>
> at his new vector-based Morphic implementation. The renderer is<br>
> currently written in Smalltalk -- so, slow -- but the idea is that<br>
> we're going to adapt it to Slang so it can be translated as a VM<br>
> plugin in C. The most interesting thing is, his algorithm[2] is<br>
> unique. It's based on signal processing theory, and provides crisper<br>
> rendering than anything I know of currently on or off of the market.<br>
> One of the goals behind the work is to realize a truly zoomable user<br>
> interface. Do you think that a zooming interface free of pixel<br>
> complications would make the large contiguous Self world easier and<br>
> more pleasant to navigate? I do! Forget the desktop pager if I can<br>
> just zoom out, right?<br>
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based on what-ever (little) i know about "self", and my interactions <br>
with mr. j raskin, i would suggest staying away from a zooming interface <br>
for a "self"-like project.<br>
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a zoomworld, as was described by mr. raskin would be more apt where you <br>
want to drill down into _knowledge_, which isn't the case with "self".<br>
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do correct me if you feel my assumptions are wrong.<br>
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~mayuresh<br>
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