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prathyvsh/semantic-zoom: Github repository to catalogue semantic zoom interaction patterns

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A github repository curating semantic zoom interaction pattern. Semantic zoom is an interaction technique for making the information density in a UI artefact coarser/finer. The representation / functionality afforded at a particular level of detail aligns with the user intent. They have started to gain prominence with AIs enabling multi-level text summaries. Tweet thread on it here A neat artistic representation of semantic zoom might be this animation by Julian Frost: Some terms worth understanding before proceeding is level of detail, abstraction gradient, and progressive disclosure. Similar ideas are touched upon in Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. Analogous ideas exist in other domains like chunking in writing, mipmapping in game graphics, and Coarse-graining / Renormalization in physics. As I noted in a tweet thread, this idea was latent in representing icons in many different resolutions, some of which required appropriate representations at particular levels of detail to be

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