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From: tcrowley@DIAMOND.BBN.COM ("Terry Crowley")
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Subject: Re: A high-level language for animation & sound ??
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Have to agree with Nathaniel, I wouldn't claim that what we have is a
good representation of time-sequenced multimedia events.  In fact, as
it stands now a Slate document (nee Diamond), doesn't have any notion
of time-sequenced events.  Speech and video can be embedded in a document
but are only played when explicitly invoked.  You could probably get part
of the way along using that capability and the document extension
language, but I haven't tried doing it so I can't make any claims right
now.

Other activity that I know about that seems pertinent is the Athena
Muse work at MIT, designed primarily as a tool for developing interactive
video instructional materials, and Polle Zellweger's work at Xerox PARC
on Scripted Documents.

Terry Crowley