Hi all,
I’m inviting you to enter this sketchbook on the book for a new kind of textual experience…
keywords: bible, prophets, spirals, landscape, opengl, mig 21’s…
I’ve been silently lurking over this forum for the past few months and I learned a few good tricks from you guys that I’m using in this work…
So thanks for everything!
Ariel Malka
http://www.chronotext.org
http://www.mobile-sand.com
interesting concept (but after 30 seconds I felt “sea sick”)
Works fine on mac os X panther
Lilian
Interesting idea and nice design. I’m not sure actually attempting to read the text on the height map works well though. I agree with c_lilian that it makes you seasick. Maybe copying the verse you’re reading as a “subtitle” overlaying everything and only very loosely tracking the actual text on the heightmap?
The final effect is certainly very interesting.
There is a definite seasick effect going on here, though. Maybe I would suggest ‘flattening’ the line under the cursor so the terrain/camera doesn’t need to continually make roll/pitch adjustments. Then you could just smoothly rotate through the text without all the bobbling. The effect could be that the terrain spiral ‘raises up’ the text onto a temporary plateau as you read it, and then it falls or rises away into its original configuration as it passes your eyes.
I also find that when I run the reader at a rotation rate that is appropriate to my reading speed, is almost impossible to read because of what I suspect is the refresh rate. I’m using a 16 ms LCD monitor which is decent but may not be good enough for running the simulation at normal read or speak speed. I don’t have a CRT handy, and I don’t know the refresh rate at which you are even running the app. If your app can be configured to run in a variety of refresh rates, and/or pick the highest available refresh rates, I can try it up to 120Hz on my CRT at home, tonight.
thanks guys for the precious feedback!
will catch up later on…
Crazy excellent effect ! ;D
Now when I watch my screen, even when nothing is moving, I see it moving !!! :o