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MediaCalc was a software prototype for an interactive-multimedia authoring system, developed at Interval Research Corporation between 1994 and 1997. By combining the capabilities of modern media editing systems with an insight from spreadsheets, it embodied a new model for multimedia authoring in which content annotations of time-based media could be operated on by functional dependencies in order to compute new media. Functions in MediaCalc are applied to media by means of a visual programming language in which function icons are dragged from a palette onto media handles and thereby connected into a network of dependencies. Constraints among media streams, and among abstract streams of different types describing the "contents" of other streams, form a language for prototyping and creating media and software artifacts. |
MediaCalc
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At left is a link to an image of the MediaCalc Timeline interface, across which multimedia streams are linearly spatialized, and connected by functional dependencies. |