Branching and expanding

Explanation
Exploration
Exercise

Experiment: On Your Own
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Branching. A stub that will explain how text expansion and contraction works. This is slightly different than motion.

Explanation

Text can expand

Associations with expansion

Exploration

John Sparrow's Eye in the Making (2006) uses expanding word sets.

The Brain

Exercise: In Your Arms

Experiment: On Your Own

Try Jason Nelson's Branching Tutorial. This provides a way to expand on an original text by clicking the + sign in front of the phrase to expand, and showing - when the phrase can no longer be expanded. You can try the sample and download the Flash. Jason Nelson also includes a commentary on these in English. You can work without the commentary, but Jason Nelson also includes a commentary on these in English. You can work without the commentary, but note that you either have to be familiar with Flash or work with someone who is.

Solitaire

  1. Get a deck of cards. Organize them by suit and number (ace, king, queen, jack, 10...)
  2. Glue a main theme on each of the aces.
  3. Glue an expansion (image, word, phrase, sentence, paragraph) on each of the other cards.
  4. Place your cards in a deck so they can be expanded or folded out.

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