{"id":1255,"date":"2008-06-12T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T07:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2008-06-12T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T07:56:01","slug":"virtual_popup_book_in_papervis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/virtual_popup_book_in_papervis\/","title":{"rendered":"virtual pop-up book in papervision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3107\/2573010002_af26054758.jpg?v=0\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecodazoo.com\/\">Ecodazoo<\/a> is a beautifully-animated if slightly inscrutable site created in Papervision, a real-time 3D engine for Flash.  Scrolling around the page takes you to a series of animated &#8216;pop-up books&#8217; that tell vaguely eco-educational stories.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s pretty, even if it&#8217;s unclear who it&#8217;s aimed at. The heavy &#8216;book&#8217; styling made me think though. Will the children of the future only experience pop-up books in animated form, onscreen? Or would the pop-up book conceit only have resonance for those raised on the paper versions?<br \/>\nTo put it another way, would an animated &#8216;book&#8217; enchant or simply baffle an adult raised since infancy on screen-based reading? If so, the many well-meaning attempts to transpose codex-like qualities into the digital realm ultimately serve only to comfort those dwindling generations (of which, at 29, I&#8217;m probably the last) for whom in early years print took precedence over digital text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecodazoo is a beautifully-animated if slightly inscrutable site created in Papervision, a real-time 3D engine for Flash. Scrolling around the page takes you to a series of animated &#8216;pop-up books&#8217; that tell vaguely eco-educational stories. It&#8217;s pretty, even if it&#8217;s unclear who it&#8217;s aimed at. The heavy &#8216;book&#8217; styling made me think though. Will the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,552,1403,1492],"tags":[2375],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codex","category-ecodazoo","category-papervision","category-post_bit_atom","tag-ecodazoo-papervision-post_bit_atom-codex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}