[7] Coverly, M.D. Afterimage . 2001. <http://califia.hispeed.com/Afterimage/index.html>

Text Menu




Afterimage begins with an animated anchor, an actual portal giving peeks into the landscape behind it. Unlike What We Will [66]or Reagan Library [47], this is a static glimpse--we cannot pan the landscape.

The typing text on the screen and the sound, along with the animated anchor, provide a temporal as well as spatial context. This also sets up a false expectation that the image on rest of the screens will provide an anchor, but the anchors are all text after this point.


Screenshot used by permission. This is not an anchor, but an icon showing the place of the action--a different paper, perhaps

The main work has three text anchor schemas:

  • An moderate embedded link at the end of each text on each node
  • A menu of months listing all the nodes
  • A begin/end

Similar to Marble Springs [36], Samplers [37], and In The Changing Room [8], Afterimage presents a default order. The end link takes us through the texts in a default order, from January through December. Once visited, the end link turns to a subtle modest link, fading back into the text, as if no longer enticing the reader to continue on. This is similar to A List Apart's [2] and this paper's treatment of visited links.

Like The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot [61], Afterimage presents a menu of all nodes on each page. Sand Loves [38] , and Ferris Wheels [33] have a similar navigation function built into the map.

Note that unlike Adaptive Path [1]'s end embedded link, the embedded end link here is an integral part of the text and thus can be interpreted as a connotative bridge between the origin and the next node. Here, the "death" is contined on the next page with a discussion of Trevor's death.


Screenshot used by permission. This is not an anchor, but an icon showing the place of the action--a different paper, perhaps

Rolling over the image darkens or lightens the image to highlight or blur the text typed over the image:

 


Screenshot used by permission.