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Re: CT article (was: Re: [zzdev] "Mailboxes" is a misnomer)
- To: Benjamin Fallenstein <b.fallenstein@xxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: CT article (was: Re: [zzdev] "Mailboxes" is a misnomer)
- From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 00:41:38 +0300 (EETDST)
- Cc: zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <398DD2F4.6E71016A@xxxxxx>
>
> > GZigZag is probably (XXX???) the first system to implement such
> > transpointing with beams: an earlier Xanadu client Pyxi by XXX
> > shows transclusions by colors but does not do transpointing. The
>
> See Ted's ACM paper, "Xanalogical Media: Needed Now More Than Ever;"
> search for "WHAT IT WILL TAKE" (near the bottom). There's a screenshot
> of a working demo created at the University of Southampton by Ted an Ian Heath.
>
> Of course, you could say that they use LINES, not "beams," but that
> would be *very* picky. Ted, anything to say about this?
No, I've seen that demo: it's not real transclusions, it's just lines with
fixed beginnings and ends in the text. It's not *editable*.
By the way, TextCloud now works with FlobSet. ZZGraphics et al can now be
retired.
Tuomas