Thursday November 16, 2006

Book as Terrain

The neatest mashup I've seen in a long time was highlighted today over on If: Book,
http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2006/11/book_as_terrain.html

What kinds of stories, narratives, navigation, use, and instruction might result from turning book pages, both image and text, into maps? I don't know, but I like thinking about it. The actual tool is at http://www.maplib.net/index.php

Idle playtoy or something a bit deeper? Only time will tell.