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Codex B Hypernovel
The HyperNovel is fictive diary by Leonardo da Vinci from the time he painted
La Gioconda = Mona Lisa. It incorporates two themes: namely a love-affair with
Leonardo and the model and the deliberations of Leonardo and some of his
friends
on a design for a calculator. (He did have some sketches of one!!!)
This is a prototype for what a hypertext Novel might be. We demonstrated it
publicly in a seminar on HyperArts - here in Finland August 12 1990. It was
originally designed to run on Mac plusses with hard disk. Personally I think it
is at its best on something faster, like SE30.
My role in the affair was that of a director (if ones uses the analogy of film
making). I am responsible for the look and feel of codex 1.1 -stack and I also
lead the way for the students to do some scripting for their animation and such.
However we strived to keep and nurture all ideas so in the end we felt very
satisfied with the result as a prototype.
Hypernovel was announced public in August 1990 and was an experimental
project
to attempt an emerging fiction form namely hypermedia novel. The
implementation
team was directed, trained and tutored by Heikki Salo.
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