Handwriting is rarely seen in works of electronic literature, or on the screen at all. Dan Waber’s delightful Strings presents a scrawl that has a life of its own, embodying certain human activities (arguing, flirting, laughter) in the form of animated lines of handwriting that pull themselves into the shape of ideas.
I chose to only show one of the examples from the Strings set because I didn’t really care for any of the other .gifs. They all demonstrate Visibility well I just didn’t like the concept of the other ones. But I thought that “argument” was the best out of all of them and was the best choice of E-Lit for Visibility. I think that “argument” does a good job of illustrating that the image follows the words. When you watch the back and forth motion in “argument” from yes to no, you really get a sense for the meaning of those words.
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