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May 4, 2021

Can anyone point me in the direction of academic research and/or well-researched material on non-linear, visual-spatial hyperlinks? As in, sections of images/space linked to other images/space, rather than text linked to text. In pursuit of the non-textual web...

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Only real leads I've found so far... 1. A 2001 paper from an ACM conference - "The visual knowledge builder: a second-generation spatial hypertext" - dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114 2. the HyperImage platform – hyperimage.ws/en/ Having trouble tracking down much else...

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🙏 Huge thanks to everyone who contributed leads on the history of spatial/visual links. One of those questions Google can't answer, but the beautiful, associative minds of humans can :) Now to arrange these into a cohesive set of notes for the garden...

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Not sure it fits what you have in mind but have you looked into Image Maps?

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Image map - Wikipedia

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Ah I had not, but this is exactly what I was hoping existed! Knew there had to be some history of people trying to standardize this. Seems like the pre-SVG / non-SVG version.

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Is this along the lines of mindmapping tools, or maybe things like Prezi? I don't know about any of the research but I've thought it'd be really cool to have something like this to organize safari notes! (from csdl.tamu.edu/ensemble/?page)

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I definitely have Prezi in my notes as one of the early popular experiments in spatial layouts of info. Mostly looking into standardized protocols that could work on the open web (versus closed off apps). Sadly still seems like most info-based visual layout systems are app-bound