[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/01/23 07:33:07

Modified files:
        xupdf          : article.rst 

Log message:
        overall structure now in place -- comments?

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.18&tr2=1.19&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.18 manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.19
--- manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.18  Thu Jan 23 07:24:22 2003
+++ manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst       Thu Jan 23 07:33:07 2003
@@ -188,17 +188,12 @@
 
 
 
-It is important to maintain orientation locally (i.e., left/right
-direction of links, etc.) but the space need not be globally
-euclidian. This matches the way the brain understands space
-as globally distorted, segmented, locally Euclidian views.
-Some refs (should search for more/better):
-http://acad88.sahs.uth.tmc.edu/research/publications/iccs2001spatial.pdf
-http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/hunt99orientation.html
-
 User-interface techniques enabled by fast hardware
 ==================================================
 
+Of these techniques, only the first seems to have been used
+prior to this work (XXX two papers in review process)
+
 Distortion-oriented Focus+Context view of virtual paper
 -------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -223,16 +218,32 @@
 
 - can smoothly adjust buoy size and location 
 
-Nadir
------
+It is important to maintain orientation locally (i.e., left/right
+direction of links, etc.) but the space need not be globally
+euclidian. This matches the way the brain understands space
+as globally distorted, segmented, locally Euclidian views.
+Some refs (should search for more/better):
+http://acad88.sahs.uth.tmc.edu/research/publications/iccs2001spatial.pdf
+http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/hunt99orientation.html
 
-- 
+Because of this, each link has a specific left-right orientation ...
 
 Break lines
 -----------
 
-A techinque used in technical drawing for indicating
-where the content extends beyond what is shown.
+The rectangular frames are also likely a decision resulting
+mostly from performance. Especially when showing a region
+of another document in a buoy, a rectangular frame could be 
+visually distracting, and doesn't provide a clear indication
+of whether we are looking at the edge of the currently shown
+part or the whole content.
+
+*Break lines* are a techinque used in technical drawing 
+for indicating
+where an object extends beyond what is drawn in the current
+diagram. It is visually clear since it uses a shape that
+is obviously not a part of the diagram's own shape
+(wiggly freehand line).
 
 - animation
 - non-photorealistic
@@ -242,6 +253,12 @@
 JVK
 
 
+Nadir
+-----
+
+- 
+
+
 Paper
 -----
 
@@ -255,6 +272,17 @@
 - preattentive
 
 JVK
+
+Implementation on the Gzz platform
+==================================
+
+Vobs, coordsys, jython --> easy prototyping
+
+An example structure: a MEMEX-like view of recent hypertext and graphics 
articles
+===================================================================================================
+
+[#as-we-may-think] 
+
 
 Conclusions
 ===========