kinetext: Concrete-Programming Paradigm for Kinetic Typography

IEEE VL'97 Paper for reference

May 8, 1998
MASTERS THESIS: Each chapter is a PostScript file.
Title Pages and Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Related Work
Chapter 3: Background
Chapter 4: Description of the System
Chapter 5: Visual Design of the System
Chapter 6: Authoring Text Animations with kinetext
Chapter 7: Analysis of Method and Process: A Comparison Among Authoring Systems
Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks
Appendix A: User Manual
Appendix B: Authoring a Simple Animation with kinetext
Bibliography and References


May 1, 1998
Draft four of thesis: PDF file.
April 13, 1998
First draft of thesis: PostScript file of text.
PostScript file of Table of Contents for text.


April 8, 1998
In the process of composing the thesis. Will be putting up drafts soon.
MOVIE WITH VOICE-OVER (11 MB)
FUN VERSION OF MOVIE (17 MB)


March 8, 1998
QUICKTIME MOVIE OF THE APP. (17 MB)


February 17, 1998
Nurby clusters enabled. Interpolation is gorgeous. Will be putting up movie soon.


January 21, 1998
kineText now has a save and retrieve mode! Output is saved in the form of a script (meaning it can also be edited in a text editor) which can be reread by kineText and uploaded with the apropo structures.


December 3, 1997
PostScript version of revised thesis proposal.


November 5, 1997
PostScript version of submitted thesis proposal.


October 3, 1997
QUICKTIME MOVIE OF THE APP. (29 MB)

Up-to-date screen shot. Clustering is implemented, where the GLUE clusters composite the collective characteristics of the children nodes. Stills don't really do it any justice, but I've included one.


August 27, 1997
Recent screen shot.

Another recent screen shot.

August 14, 1997
So the current drive has been on utilizing the 3D capabilities of the environment. The idea in it's most basic form is to have a Director-like score in the form of 3D-planes with each plane representing a point in time. The user can pull up whichever plane they are working on similar to a file-cabinet type of metaphor.

Each plane is it's own workspace and typographic operators, like color and if-statements, can be created on any plane and be moved between planes. Here are some screen-shots of the:
Workspace view.

Toaster-score frontview.

Toaster-score sideview.


Chloe M. Chao / last updated March 8, 1998