Text reconfiguration

[dandrewstewart]

I wonder if, on cue (e.g., a particular word is typed), part of the written text (e.g., words) could break apart and then reconfigure on the screen to form "larger words" – letters break apart and then, reassemble to create a large character or word. In this idea, I am thinking about the emoji. Could the letters break apart to form a particular emoji on the screen – temporarily? To push this a bit farther, I was even imagining an integration with Live YT, where the words break apart to form a frame in which a YT video presents itself – that's crazy and difficult, yes?

[panavrin]

let me split this into two part. First, you want to capture certain word right?

let's say we have two types of osc messages
\register hello (app --> LW)
\discovered hello (LW --> app)

so an app can register any word of your interest so that whenever a live writer type the registered word it will send \discovered osc message to the app, which can trigger certain sound or send another osc message to LW for the visual effect that you want. This can be done shortly. If you think this will be useful, we can create another issue and deal with it separately.

the latter part of visualizing certain shape that you want is very challenging but very intriguing. It almost like an idea that I provide an image that works like a magnet and all the letters are like iron shavings. Right? I do now know how yet. Again I will have to look into this. I do not know yet.

[dandrewstewart]

This issue is probably for future-future development. In my Max, I have already resolved the /registered, /discovered concept. At ICLC2017, I typed the names of participants in LW. My Max patch recognised the name and then, told LW to auto-type a quote from the respective participant.

For the "iron shavings" concept – great analogy ! I think this can be for the future. I see a lot of interesting potential here. A way to break words a part and then, have them reform, etc. So, fundamentally (and visually) a way to influence structure of the creative writing process.