Multiple Stories

picture of stories

A study of using transparency and blurring to fit several news stories on one screen. The image above is a small version - it's linked to a full 1280x1024 screen shot. Colours look best when the room is dark. The program itself is interactive - when the user clicks on a story in the background it comes forward and swaps with the currently active story.

The images were generated on an SGI. I wrote a program based on Performer 1.2 and David Small's C++ wrappers. Coding was pretty straightforward. I wrote two source files: a Story class that wraps up the components of a story and a main file that lays out the stories and manages the interaction.


Nelson Minar <nelson@media.mit.edu>
Last modified: Fri Feb 28 19:23:40 EST 1997