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Index of Archived Streaming QuickTime Movies

• ActiveX Pie Menus: (17569457 bytes)
  Demo of the free ActiveX Pie Menu Control, developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• AfterEffects Aether Demo: (2065632 bytes)
  Demo of the "Aether" Cellular Automata plug-in, developed by Don Hopkins for Adobe AfterEffects.
  

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• All The Widgets: (24460606 bytes)
  Pie menus from "All The Widgets" CHI'90 Special Isssue #57 ACM SIGGRAPH Video Review. Including Doug Engelbart's NLS demo and the credits. Tape produced by and narrated by Brad Meyers. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Pie menus developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Amsterdam Bikes: (1489517 bytes)
  Bikes near Central Station in Amsterdam.
  

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• Cellular Automata Demo: (25026636 bytes)
  Demo of the real time Cellular Automata Machine, developed by Don Hopkins for performing live graphics to music.
  

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• Cellular SimCity: (26068335 bytes)
  Cellular Automata in SimCityNet on Unix.
  

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• Chaotic Attractors: (18652725 bytes)
  Jim Crutchfield's video tape about visualizing chaotic attractors.
  

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• DreamScape Demo: (7387920 bytes)
  Demo of DreamScape, written in Kaleida Lab's ScriptX. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space, part 1 of 5: (16415878 bytes)
  Premiere of a new work: "Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space" composed by John Yi. A live improvisation of music and digital video, performed at Mill's College on April 26th 2001. Part 1 of 5.
  

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• Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space, part 2 of 5: (15871160 bytes)
  Premiere of a new work: "Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space" composed by John Yi. A live improvisation of music and digital video, performed at Mill's College on April 26th 2001. Part 2 of 5.
  

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• Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space, part 3 of 5: (16141322 bytes)
  Premiere of a new work: "Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space" composed by John Yi. A live improvisation of music and digital video, performed at Mill's College on April 26th 2001. Part 3 of 5.
  

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• Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space, part 4 of 5: (15893034 bytes)
  Premiere of a new work: "Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space" composed by John Yi. A live improvisation of music and digital video, performed at Mill's College on April 26th 2001. Part 4 of 5.
  

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• Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space, part 5 of 5: (8417889 bytes)
  Premiere of a new work: "Marguerite Duras, Here, Now and in Space" composed by John Yi. A live improvisation of music and digital video, performed at Mill's College on April 26th 2001. Part 5 of 5.
  

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• Free The Sims Demo: (8329392 bytes)
  Demo of the "Free The Sims" ActiveX Control, based on The Sims character animation system, developed by Don Hopkins.
  

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• 60 Minutes II Interview of Will Wright and Chris Trottier: (8329392 bytes)
  60 Miutes II Interview of Will Wright and Chris Trottier: Sex, Lies and Video Games
  

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• Handy Pie Menu Demo: (1070734 bytes)
  University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab Handy Pie Menu Demo. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Pie menus developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• HCIL Pie Menus: (15174932 bytes)
  University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab Pie Menu Demos. Introduction by Ben Shneiderman. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Pie menus developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• House Party Demo: (13053802 bytes)
  Live video distortion performed at Maxis's House Party Fan Event, processed on a G4 Mac, and distorted with the "Warp-O-Matic" Image/ine plug-in. Implemented and performed by Don Hopkins.
  

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• How To Choose With Pie Menus: (6688126 bytes)
  University of Maryland Heterogeneous Systems Lab Pie Menu Demo. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser. Pie menus developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• HyperLook SimCity Demo: (49816346 bytes)
  Demonstration of SimCity running under the HyperLook user interface development system, based on NeWS PostScript. Includes a demonstration of editing HyperLook graphics and user interfaces, the HyperLook Cellular Automata Machine, and the HyperLook Happy Tool. Also shows The NeWS Toolkit applications PizzaTool and RasterRap. HyperLook developed by Arthur van Hoff and Don Hopkins at the Turing Institute. SimCity ported to Unix and HyperLook by Don Hopkins. HyperLook Cellular Automata Machine, Happy Tool, The NeWS Toolkit, PizzaTool and Raster Rap developed by Don Hopkins. Demonstration, transcript and close captioning by Don Hopkins. Camera and interview by Abbe Don. Taped at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
  

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• HyperTIES Demo: (3562242 bytes)
  University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab HyperTIES Demo. Research performed under the direction of Ben Shneiderman. HyperTIES hypermedia browser developed by Ben Shneiderman, Bill Weiland, Catherine Plaisant and Don Hopkins. Demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• I Am A Robot: (5984146 bytes)
  University of Maryland Heterogeneous Systems Lab Pie Menu Performance Art. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser. Pie menus developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Interval Talk, part 1 of 3: (31232110 bytes)
  Talk given at Interval Research on "Self Revealing Gestural Interfaces" in 1993. Part 1 of 3. Talk and demonstration by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Interval Talk, part 2 of 3: (10413093 bytes)
  Talk given at Interval Research on "Self Revealing Gestural Interfaces" in 1993. Part 2 of 3. Talk and demonstration by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Interval Talk, part 3 of 3: (36089606 bytes)
  Talk given at Interval Research on "Self Revealing Gestural Interfaces" in 1993. Part 3 of 3. Talk and demonstration by Don Hopkins.
  

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• JavaScript Pie Menus: (17442614 bytes)
  Demo of the free JavaScript Pie Menus implemented as a Dynamic HTML Behavior for Internet Explorer. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Just The Pie Menus: (8386931 bytes)
  Pie menus from "All The Widgets" CHI'90 Special Isssue #57 ACM SIGGRAPH Video Review. Tape produced and narrated by Brad Meyers. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Pie menus developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Kaleida ScriptX: (21604566 bytes)
  Promotional video about ScriptX from Kaleida Labs. Featuring Mike Braun, John Wainwright and Randy Nelson.
  

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• Ken Perlin Talk: (17036952 bytes)
  Ken Perlin's talk about character animation, at the Game Developer Conference.
  

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• Love Story: (47685263 bytes)
  More live video feedback with a classic love story theme: Live video processed on a G4 Mac, distorted with the "Warp-O-Matic" Image/ine plug-in, inverted and remixed with a Videonics MX-ProDV video mixer, displayed on a monitor, digitized with a Cannon GL-1 firewire video camera, and fed back to the Mac into Image/ine. Implemented and performed by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Mousee Demo: (2445914 bytes)
  Demo of Mousee running in the NeWS Window System. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• NeMACS Demo: (3511315 bytes)
  Demo of UniPress NeMACS running in the NeWS Window System. Emacs development performed under the direction of Mike Gallaher. NeWS user interface developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• NeWS Hacking Demo: (8559956 bytes)
  Demo of UniPress NeMACS, the PseudoScientific Visualizer and NeWS PSIBER Space Deck. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Emacs development performed under the direction of Mike Gallaher. Developed and documented thanks to the support of John Gilmore and Julia Menapace. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• NPUC Don Hopkins and Don Norman Talks: (8403257 bytes)
  Talks by Don Hopkins and Donald Norman at IBM Almaden's "New Paradigms for Using Computers" workshop. Organized and introduced by Ted Selker. Talks and demonstrations by Don Hopkins and Don Norman.
  

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• Object Exporter Demo: (1026770 bytes)
  Demo of the 3D Studio Max object exporter for The Sims, used by Maxis to create the original objects for the game.
  

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• Paul Skydiving: (12145318 bytes)
  Paul Hopkins' skydiving video.
  

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• Person Exporter Demo: (1578455 bytes)
  Demo of the 3D Studio Max person exporter, based on Character Studio and MaxScript, developed by Don Hopkins for The Sims, used by Maxis to create skeletons, bodies and character animation for the game.
  

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• Pie Menu Experiment: (7144569 bytes)
  Demo of the experiment performed by Jack Callahan to evaluate the effectiveness of pie menus versus linear menus. Research performed by Jack Callahan under the direction of Ben Shneiderman, and Don Hopkins under the direction of Mark Weiser. Programmed in Sun Forth implemented by Mitch Bradley. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Precision Pie Demo: (2512040 bytes)
  Demo of the precision pie menu. Research performed by Don Hopkins under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Pseudo Scientific Visualizer Demo: (21431618 bytes)
  Demo of the PseudoScientific Visualizer and NeWS PSIBER Space Deck. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Developed and documented thanks to the support of John Gilmore and Julia Menapace. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• PSIBER Demo: (9434433 bytes)
  Demo of the NeWS PSIBER Space Deck. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Developed and documented thanks to the support of John Gilmore and Julia Menapace. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• San Francisco SimCity Demo: (31518369 bytes)
  Demo of playing SimCity for X11 with Pie Menus, cleaning up after an earthquake in San Francisco. Ported to Unix and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Scott McCloud Talk: (21935200 bytes)
  Scott McCloud's talk about comics and computer games, at the Game Developer Conference.
  

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• Self Aware Video Wall: (5401631 bytes)
  Simple, essential live video feedback: Live video processed on a G4 Mac, distorted with the "Warp-O-Matic" Image/ine plug-in, displayed on a monitor, digitized with Cannon GL-1 firewire video camera, and fed back to the Mac into Image/ine. Implemented and performed by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Linux SimCityNet Demo: (23666011 bytes)
  Demo of the latest optimized Linux version of Multi Player SimCity for X11. Ported to Unix, optimized for Linux and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Space Time Dynamics of Video Feedback: (22494171 bytes)
  Jim Crutchfield's video tape about the space time dynamics of video feedback.
  

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• Tab Window Demo: (16919514 bytes)
  Demo of the Pie Menu Tab Window Manager for The NeWS Toolkit 2.0. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• The Sims Pie Menus: (49471706 bytes)
  Demo of the pie menus in The Sims, as well as the Edith editing tool and visual programming environment used to dynamically generate the menus and control behaviors. The Sims and Edith developed at Maxis by Will Wright, Jamie Doornbos, Eric Bowman, Jim Mackraz and Don Hopkins. Pie menus, character animation system, architectural editing tools and visual programming tools developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Transmogrifier Demo: (5493860 bytes)
  Demo of the Transmogrifier tool developed by Don Hopkins for The Sims, that allows players to create their own objects.
  

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• UMCP Pie Menu Intro: (1874823 bytes)
  University of Maryland Heterogeneous Systems Lab Pie Menu Introduction. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser. Pie menus developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• Visualizer Demo: (15221832 bytes)
  Demo of the NeWS PseudoScientific Visualizer and the PSIBER Space Deck. Research performed under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Developed and documented thanks to the support of John Gilmore and Julia Menapace. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• WWDC ScriptX Demo: (21381432 bytes)
  Demonstration of the DreamScape ScriptX design example, at Apple Computer's 1995 World Wide Developer's Conference. Designed, implemented and demonstrated by Don Hopkins, Kaleida Labs.
  

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• Weiser SDI Pie Menus: (1563939 bytes)
  Demonstration of Mark Weiser's Pie Menus implementation for his classic game SDI for SunView, written while snowed in at home in 1987.
  

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• X10 Pie Menu Window Manager Demo: (9235665 bytes)
  Demonstration of X10 Window Management Pie Menus implemented as an extension to the "uwm" window manager, incorporating the Sun Forth extension language. Research performed by Don Hopkins under the direction of Mark Weiser. Programmed in Sun Forth implemented by Mitch Bradley. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• X11 SimCity Demo: (7312308 bytes)
  Demo of Pie Menus in SimCity for X11. Ported to Unix and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.
  

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• XML Web Server Demo: (9742605 bytes)
  Demo of the XML based web server and lisp-like programming language, designed and implemented by Don Hopkins.
  

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