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> I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone do [...] continuity of zoom [...] overlapped perspectives Years ago, when React was a mere virtual dom library with delus
by mncharity 7y ago
> I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone do [...] continuity of zoom [...] overlapped perspectives
Years ago, when React was a mere virtual dom library with delusions of grandeur, I did a prototype of a customizable zoomer. Images, videos, maps, molecule viewer, and stacks of such. Zoom and drag around. So folks could create custom zooms for whatever topics they cared about, with whatever media they could find, with whatever concern for copyright they felt appropriate. In part to create an incentive to surface media from peoples' drives. It was a slog, and failing to focus on staging through an MVP, I burned out on it.
Now, with web dev far more mature, and browser 2D css far less buggy, an MVP would be rather easy for someone to do. Basically take a list of image urls paired with meters-per-pixel values. Here's an old simple images-only user test, just in case a hands-on motivates someone: http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/ZoomB?v=A&p=Gaax2&za=Hrr5F http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/ZoomB?v=A&p=Gaax2&za=Hrr... .
I dropped the ball on that one. Long contact list of professors who wanted an email when it was usable. :/
But apropos our topic, our communication and coordination, tooling and culture, is missing something, when valued progress is allowed to have half-decade bus factor ones. Dropped-ball factor ones?