Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸 on Twitter: "@bschne 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." / Twitter

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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Benjamin Schneider

@bschne

May 4, 2021

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

en.wikipedia.org

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.

7:31 PM · May 4, 2021Twitter Web App

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People actually used this for e.g. page navigation sometimes as opposed to slicing up the image and putting it in an invisible table. I think some editors like MS Frontpage had tools that let you draw out the area to use as a link on images etc.

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Bopuc

@Bopuc

May 5, 2021

Yup. I did this by hand sometimes too (area coordinates in Photoshop, squares/rectangles mostly ;)

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