Why is the person looking at the page? Is it to answer a specific question, or is he just browsing around? In either case he needs some preparation as to what he is seeing. When I saw the numbers grouped and so on I thought, "How neat!" But that was because I knew J and had made that same animation in my mind many times. Seeing it was great!
But If I didn't know anything about the vector approach of J then I would probably have thought, "So what? I can do that easily with a loop." The person needs a little preparation as to what he is seeing. Don't let the audio be a distraction. Use it to enhance. To me that means somebody talking. A little bit before the animation starts, so the person knows what he is seeing, and maybe some explanation as to why it is important. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:26 PM, bob therriault <bobtherria...@mac.com>wrote: > Thanks Dan, > > I hadn't seen those links before, but they are surprisingly close to some > of the experiments I have tried with audio in the animations. It's strange > but so far there is something I am missing in how the sound design and the > animation work together. I believe that the audio should clarify the > concepts, but maybe because the ideas are spatial, I find the audio more > distracting than helpful. I am wondering whether more subtle sounds may be > more effective. Swishes and scrapes versus boings and thumps may give a more > integrated experience of visual and audio. I'll be banging some more tests > out in the next week and look forward to your feedback. > > Cheers, bob > > On -Feb7-2010, at -Feb7-20106:41 PM, Dan Bron wrote: > > > bob therriault proffered: > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfvs8o5kmyg > > > > That was really cool! And undeniably helpful for an "array newbie". > Thank > > you. > > > > The best I can offer in return is a link I got from these Forums, years > gone > > by [1]. It's a list of animations similar in spirit to yours, for common > > Matlab functions: > > > > http://documents.wolfram.com/flash/ > > > > -Dan > > > > [1] http://documents.wolfram.com/flash/ > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
