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0 pointsseanmcdirmid11y ago0 comments

Strobing and scrubbing, retroactive update have been done since the 70s. The problem has been scaling up beyond toys.

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I'm not familiar with the strobing/scrubbing terminology. I don't think my memories have decayed that badly. :-) I don't suppose you have a paper you'd mind linking to about this?

seanmcdirmidOP11y ago

It is terminology that the live coding and live programming communities (well, at least Alex McLean and myself) are just adopting, and related to analogous capabilities in tools for video editing (like FinalCut Pro, AfterEffects). The terminology is meant to help us describe older work and the newer experiences like those illustrated by Bret Victor.

I use these terms a bit in my recent papers, but I don't go into much detail:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2112...

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1898...

For the first paper, here is an annotated video that perhaps shows it better:

http://youtu.be/xmWJsTTOvkU

You would be correct in thinking they are hardly standard. Time travel is such a sexy term alternative that most people just use that, even if it isn't very descriptive.

pnathan11y ago

Programming with Managed Time takes an fairly novel approach to the semantics of time. I can't say that I've ever really run into a system very much like that before (my MS was on distributed debugging and I did a fairly deep dive into the history and literature).

Anyway, the strobe/scrub terminology I think is worth using, IMO. It describes it well. Time travel is pretty fun to say though. =)

ah well, it inspires me to continue on with my research. :-)

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pnathan11y ago

I'm not familiar with the strobing/scrubbing terminology. I don't think my memories have decayed that badly. :-) I don't suppose you have a paper you'd mind linking to about this?

seanmcdirmidOP11y ago

I use these terms a bit in my recent papers, but I don't go into much detail:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2112...

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1898...

For the first paper, here is an annotated video that perhaps shows it better:

http://youtu.be/xmWJsTTOvkU

You would be correct in thinking they are hardly standard. Time travel is such a sexy term alternative that most people just use that, even if it isn't very descriptive.

pnathan11y ago

Anyway, the strobe/scrub terminology I think is worth using, IMO. It describes it well. Time travel is pretty fun to say though. =)

ah well, it inspires me to continue on with my research. :-)

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