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The last two quarters of my undergraduate work was spent on this project. Almost entirely self-directed, this "capstone" project was the culmination of my 5 years at DAAP. I was interested in trying to find a better way to present text on the screen. The first quarter was spent writing a massive research paper investigating the problem and proposing a solution. The second quarter was spent building a proof-of-concept of the solution.
It's basically a massive 3D world where different kinds of text exist on different planes in the space. I chose an ancient piece of literature (a few passages from the Bible) so that I could have one type of plane be the text itself, another be commentary about the text and another with definitions of different words or phrases. The entire project was built in Director.
The project ended up earning an honorable mention in the 2003 I.D. student awards and has since been published in Type in Motion 2 due out later this year.
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