Thanks for the review, Ian It definitely needs to be sped up and, although music could be added, it was going to be finished with a voice over and sound effects. I hadn't got around to final version, but when I read Oleg's comment about animation, I exported the 'work in progress' to YouTube. YouTube does provide a string for embedding, but I didn't think it would work within an email.
I would be happy to work on animations as they were needed for specific primitives. My experience says that there is a certain level of fundamental understanding that is required before animations are really effective, before that they tend towards eye-candy (or worse misleading). If you have a primitive in mind let me know and we can go through some iterations to see how productive we are. Cheers, bob ps. you can put videos into J labs as well, by using the jbrowser file and calling specific URL's hiding it within the PREPARE section. eg. PREPARE launch_jbrowser_ 'http://www.apple.com/ca/ipodtouch/what-is/pocket-computer.html' PREPARE It has been a while since I have done this and the result is that a whole browser window will open, but when refined this may have some possibilities. I'm not as sure how this will work with the new browser interface. bt On -Feb1-2010, at -Feb1-20106:43 PM, Ian Clark wrote: > I like it, Bob. > > The minimalism may arise from it being a first effort, but it shows > it's neither necessary nor wise to over-egg the pudding. > > Minor crits: could do with being sped up. Needs music. YouTube has a > library of free soundtracks: you can just attach one for now. > > YouTube movies can be easily embedded in your own html file. Stefano & > I have done it. They generate you an <object> to copy/paste. See > source of http://www.maxclark.me.uk/undeadtree/interspex.htm for an > example. > > But how to do it with MoinMoin? > > So... are you offering to do a 15 second movie for each J primitive? > > Ian > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:08 PM, bob therriault <bobtherria...@mac.com> wrote: >> Hi Oleg and Ian, >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODxv498p4ME >> >> This isn't about a specific function, but is an animation i put together to >> explain why it is useful to organize information into arrays. I developed it >> on keynote, but haven't yet put a soundtrack to it. It's not really high >> end, but it wasn't too hard to put together either. Let me know if you have >> more specific ideas for animations. >> >> Cheers, bob >> >> On -Feb1-2010, at -Feb1-201012:50 PM, Oleg Kobchenko wrote: >> >>>> From: Ian Clark <earthspo...@googlemail.com> >>> >>>> >>>>> One winning instructional strategy, including Gilman and Rose, >>>>> is telling a story for each piece of material. Such stories, >>>>> among other things, may revolve around exo-paradigms. >>>> >>>> When I used to program in FORTH (sign of a mis-spent youth) one >>>> well-beloved primer in the FORTH community was illustrated with >>>> engaging but instructive cartoons. Thus the standard word SWOP was a >>>> little two-headed dragon that did what you'd guess with objects on the >>>> stack. Can anyone remember the book and remind me of its title? >>> >>> Starting FORTH, by Leo Brodie >>> >>> http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/sf2/sf2.html >>> >>> >>> This is fun stuff all right. And a good read for a vacation. >>> >>> >>> What I was thinking for APL/J for a long time was >>> an interactive or animated illustrator of the operations, >>> especially those that manipulate multidimensional and >>> nested structures. >>> >>> >>>> I know someone (http://www.leelamaria.com/) who could do us a wodge of >>>> cartoons like that. Shall I try to get them interested? >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
