Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 20161/ Animated GIFs have far more potential than people realize, consider the potential for instruction manualsQuote TweetChenoe Hart@chenoehart·Jan 1, 2016Think GIFs have overlooked potential for instruction manual design. https://twitter.com/ClearDesignLab/status/681532088496091136…3620
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr2/ Or for yoga poses or proper form for strength trainingQuote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @chenoehart@chenoehart yes! Ikea needs these online. Also great for yoga poses, correct form for free weight lifts...bottleneck is animation artwork16
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr3/ Dig deeper, and you realize the animated gif is actually a refactored pause button218
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr4/ Time is linear and smooth paced (1s/s). Pause/resume makes it choppy, but freeze-frame is not really what we want14
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr5/ Think how you actually consume video that's faster than you can process. You rewind/play repeatedly, rather than pausing27
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr6/ This picture illustrates a-gif time. It's loopy time.113
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr7/ This suggests a novel type of video player. Set "loop base" points and intervals on a regular video. Player loops there by default328
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr8/ This would generalize the principle of animated gifs to a new kind of non-sequential playback video idea.115
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @vgr9/ You could go beyond single-point-anchored loops and create all sorts of gnarly topologies on a basic linear time stream6:53 PM · Jan 1, 20164 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr10/ As interactivity in video gets more important, this could be the future. Also applicable to audio (loop clips for important bits).16
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr11/ With audio too, we notice it already exists as a hack (rewind/replay, DJ stuff). Lesson: consumers make good use of sequence control26