Emergency Linking Books, ..don´t leave the cave without them
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How do you avoid getting stuck in an unstable world?
Take an emergency linking book!
OK, its been a while. THen again, when you don´t have time....
So thats how i ended up making these mini linking books. They are
a lot less time consuming than the bigger ones...
They are a bit rough around the edges cuz they are the first ones of
this type that i make.
Enjoy!
Kudos to the Riven Journel. A must see.
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Take an emergency linking book!
OK, its been a while. THen again, when you don´t have time....
So thats how i ended up making these mini linking books. They are
a lot less time consuming than the bigger ones...
They are a bit rough around the edges cuz they are the first ones of
this type that i make.
Enjoy!
Kudos to the Riven Journel. A must see.
P1010014.JPG ( 54.97K )
Number of downloads: 80
P1010015.JPG ( 35.74K )
Number of downloads: 87
P1010016.JPG ( 35.31K )
Number of downloads: 51
P1010018.JPG ( 47.33K )
Number of downloads: 81
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So cute!! It looks sort of like one those pocket address books. Nice work! 
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I like 'em. A lot, actually - I've always thought that if I ever actually had, say, a Relto, I'd want it to be pocket-sized, like those. I love the cover of the first Book, too... I don't suppose you craft these as a trade?
A lot, actually - I've always thought that if I ever actually had, say, a Relto, I'd want it to be pocket-sized, like those. I love the cover of the first Book, too... I don't suppose you craft these as a trade?
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Thats awsome! 
Appearently the stanger has a whole stash of them for falling through the map in myst V
Appearently the stanger has a whole stash of them for falling through the map in myst V
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Glad you all liked!
The aged paper give it a certain touch, and i am going to do some d´ni inscriptions in calligraphy.
The covers need more work... maybe dni numbers or narayan glyphs....
Another thing i might try is printing small pics outt a the games and pasting them as
the link images....
The aged paper give it a certain touch, and i am going to do some d´ni inscriptions in calligraphy.
The covers need more work... maybe dni numbers or narayan glyphs....
Another thing i might try is printing small pics outt a the games and pasting them as
the link images....
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If you got it thick enough, you could hide an ipod video or some such in there, and have a moving linking panel! 
EDIT: it would have to get a bit larger too. Maybe a nano?
This post has been edited by jjoo: Apr 26 2006, 06:10 PM
EDIT: it would have to get a bit larger too. Maybe a nano?
This post has been edited by jjoo: Apr 26 2006, 06:10 PM
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QUOTE(jjoo @ Apr 26 2006, 06:09 PM)
If you got it thick enough, you could hide an ipod video or some such in there, and have a moving linking panel!
EDIT: it would have to get a bit larger too. Maybe a nano?
EDIT: it would have to get a bit larger too. Maybe a nano?
Hmmm.... tempting... the pages would have to be glued together, leaving a couple of whole pages to cover the body of the ipod.....
Maybe a smaller mp4 player would work as well....
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QUOTE(esteban @ Apr 26 2006, 04:21 PM)
QUOTE(jjoo @ Apr 26 2006, 06:09 PM)
If you got it thick enough, you could hide an ipod video or some such in there, and have a moving linking panel!  Â
EDIT: it would have to get a bit larger too. Maybe a nano?
  EDIT: it would have to get a bit larger too. Maybe a nano?
Hmmm.... tempting... the pages would have to be glued together, leaving a couple of whole pages to cover the body of the ipod.....
Maybe a smaller mp4 player would work as well....
It would be even cooler (building on the custom link panel program idea) if you put a small phototransistor or something in the book to activate the initial flythrough when the book was opened.
If it was on ipodlinux I might be able to do some programming and get it working (though it would be this summer, the last few months of school are fairly intense).
The other consideration is charging. You would need some way to plug it in... perhaps a small covered hole on the bottom? Or maybe a bunch of pages glued together to hide the body but not glued to the back so you could lift it up... or a ghen book charger. Maybe he used his ipod to make his linking books
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[/quote] Though the ipod has a really nice screen... and you can put linux on it to create custom linking panel programs (does mp4 support looping indefinetly?). Do you have a specific player in mind?
It would be even cooler (building on the custom link panel program idea) if you put a small phototransistor or something in the book to activate the initial flythrough when the book was opened.
If it was on ipodlinux I might be able to do some programming and get it working (though it would be this summer, the last few months of school are fairly intense).
The other consideration is charging. You would need some way to plug it in... perhaps a small covered hole on the bottom? Or maybe a bunch of pages glued together to hide the body but not glued to the back so you could lift it up... or a ghen book charger. Maybe he used his ipod to make his linking books
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A linuxPod?? Yeay!!! The penguin strikes again!!!!
I didnt have a player in mind; heck, i dont even have an ipod....
I am in the middle of my rotations but i could get something done by the end of winter.. er, summer for you northeners...
I´d go with the idea of making it easy to remove the ipod. I´ll think about it....
But it would also look cool to add a hole so you can plug your headphones n listen to music directly from the "book"...
...the Gehn book charger was prolly nuclear; it leaked alot and fried his brain
It would be even cooler (building on the custom link panel program idea) if you put a small phototransistor or something in the book to activate the initial flythrough when the book was opened.
If it was on ipodlinux I might be able to do some programming and get it working (though it would be this summer, the last few months of school are fairly intense).
The other consideration is charging. You would need some way to plug it in... perhaps a small covered hole on the bottom? Or maybe a bunch of pages glued together to hide the body but not glued to the back so you could lift it up... or a ghen book charger. Maybe he used his ipod to make his linking books
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A linuxPod?? Yeay!!! The penguin strikes again!!!!
I didnt have a player in mind; heck, i dont even have an ipod....
I am in the middle of my rotations but i could get something done by the end of winter.. er, summer for you northeners...
I´d go with the idea of making it easy to remove the ipod. I´ll think about it....
But it would also look cool to add a hole so you can plug your headphones n listen to music directly from the "book"...
...the Gehn book charger was prolly nuclear; it leaked alot and fried his brain
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That actually sounds like a good idea 
. The problem is that mp4 players are expensive (BTW, they're expenive b/c I'm 13, and Labour Act doesn't give provisions for a Canadian to work under 14). Any cheaper way (maybe a little holograph thing like you see at the back of some of the toy cabinets in McD's (not that I get HappyMeals...). There was a thing at the Kingston/Frontenac School Board where a kid made is own little hologram)
. The problem is that mp4 players are expensive (BTW, they're expenive b/c I'm 13, and Labour Act doesn't give provisions for a Canadian to work under 14). Any cheaper way (maybe a little holograph thing like you see at the back of some of the toy cabinets in McD's (not that I get HappyMeals...). There was a thing at the Kingston/Frontenac School Board where a kid made is own little hologram)
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I've made my own holograms. Making a true-color reflection hologram is very difficult (at least for us amateurs), but I don't think anything less would appropriate as a faux gateway image.
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QUOTE(Owehn @ Jun 1 2006, 10:22 AM)
I've made my own holograms. Making a true-color reflection hologram is very difficult (at least for us amateurs), but I don't think anything less would appropriate as a faux gateway image.
Hmm, seems like a tradeoff: animated or holographic. In the RT3D myst games they are animated rather than holographic, so if you wanted to stick will the "real" thing, I would go animated. But holographic would be totally awsome too!
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Where can you get hologram stuff?
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I made them through my university. I'm not sure where they got the film, lasers, etc. I gather, though, that they've been sitting on the materials for many years and haven't ordered any new stuff recently.
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Hmmm... Mabey the University in my area (Queen's) will have the stuff... although, as I'm 13, I'm not a member . Do you know if it can be ordered?
. Do you know if it can be ordered?
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I don't know where you can get the materials.
Edit: Did some googling and found holokits.com.
Maybe you can make us some linking panels, eh?
Edit: Did some googling and found holokits.com.
Maybe you can make us some linking panels, eh?
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Holopics?!?!?!?
AWESOME! Great idea, i will take the trade off with animation any day!
I just checked the site refered above... i would totally go for it except that it is way out of
my range (in Argentina, 159 us dollars is a monthly minimum wage).
Still, if anybody was one i am game for getting it done. I have planned sto set up
a site explaining how i made my books (trying to set up a Guild of Book Makers), i
got most of it done, all i need is a place to put it..
i'll let y'all know when its up so you can make your own books...
SHorah,
esteban
AWESOME! Great idea, i will take the trade off with animation any day!
I just checked the site refered above... i would totally go for it except that it is way out of
my range (in Argentina, 159 us dollars is a monthly minimum wage).
Still, if anybody was one i am game for getting it done. I have planned sto set up
a site explaining how i made my books (trying to set up a Guild of Book Makers), i
got most of it done, all i need is a place to put it..
i'll let y'all know when its up so you can make your own books...
SHorah,
esteban
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I'm a newbie at this, but esteban inspired me to make my own pocket-sized linking book.
For now, it's just a kor'neeah, or blank book.
But I'm gonna try to make more, with colored pictures and D'ni writing (maybe my book should be a wee bit bigger...)
Anyway, enjoy.
esteban, you rock!
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P.S: I know, I know-the picture's blurry. Sorry, but I was using my friends' cam and it doesn't work too well.
This post has been edited by Naigahsehn: Jun 30 2006, 01:08 PM
For now, it's just a kor'neeah, or blank book.
But I'm gonna try to make more, with colored pictures and D'ni writing (maybe my book should be a wee bit bigger...)
Anyway, enjoy.
esteban, you rock!
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Number of downloads: 46
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Number of downloads: 46P.S: I know, I know-the picture's blurry. Sorry, but I was using my friends' cam and it doesn't work too well.
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Could you put a little tutorial on how to make those things?
I tried to bind mine by hand, using needle and thread. I don't reccomend it to anyone. It is hard, frustrating, and you poke yourself so often that when you take a drink, your fingers leak.
I tried to bind mine by hand, using needle and thread. I don't reccomend it to anyone. It is hard, frustrating, and you poke yourself so often that when you take a drink, your fingers leak.
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Well, Ok. Here's what I know so far on how to make a Linking book (either average or small hardcover book):
1. Find paper of quality texture and/or quality size.
2. Use leather strips(or another material that looks like it) and size them up to your liking. They will be used as the spine and for a rustic decoration.
3. Find any other material(preferably paper) to use as the cover.
4. Two pieces of cardboard or *layered paper can be used to create the "hard" cover. One for front; the other for back.
5. Fold cover material over the cardboard, leaving an ample amout of open space(between 1.5 cm and 3cm, depending on the book being big or small). The edges must rap over the sides of the cardboard to atleast 0.5 to 1 cm. Fold the corners inward, and glue cover to cardboard.
6. Bind paper using glue (hot glue, *glue stick, or glue bottle). Then, after binding the pages together, glue the first and last page to the front and back covers.
If this helps, try it. If not, I'll try to post a pictured step-by-step version later.
Enjoy and have fun making Linking books!
1. Find paper of quality texture and/or quality size.
2. Use leather strips(or another material that looks like it) and size them up to your liking. They will be used as the spine and for a rustic decoration.
3. Find any other material(preferably paper) to use as the cover.
4. Two pieces of cardboard or *layered paper can be used to create the "hard" cover. One for front; the other for back.
5. Fold cover material over the cardboard, leaving an ample amout of open space(between 1.5 cm and 3cm, depending on the book being big or small). The edges must rap over the sides of the cardboard to atleast 0.5 to 1 cm. Fold the corners inward, and glue cover to cardboard.
6. Bind paper using glue (hot glue, *glue stick, or glue bottle). Then, after binding the pages together, glue the first and last page to the front and back covers.
If this helps, try it. If not, I'll try to post a pictured step-by-step version later.
Enjoy and have fun making Linking books!
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Very nice, Naigahsehn!
Way to go....
Lego addict: i've been trying to get my tutorials online somwewhere.... this site was okay with hosting it but i didn't here from them again. i am presently thinking of posting my tutorials in a forum as a subject (they are in flash format) but i really wanted to set up a site cuz
the to get in you first had to solve a myst type puzzle. (that's the surprise i was talking about, karoh )
Anyhow... i am thrilled that people are getting into the act.... and since the kor'neeah are starting to pop up, i'll have to make a tutorial on making calligraphy pens for rustic lettering or just practicing....
SHorah!
Way to go....
Lego addict: i've been trying to get my tutorials online somwewhere.... this site was okay with hosting it but i didn't here from them again. i am presently thinking of posting my tutorials in a forum as a subject (they are in flash format) but i really wanted to set up a site cuz
the to get in you first had to solve a myst type puzzle.
(that's the surprise i was talking about, karoh )Anyhow... i am thrilled that people are getting into the act.... and since the kor'neeah are starting to pop up, i'll have to make a tutorial on making calligraphy pens for rustic lettering or just practicing....
SHorah!
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Sweet. When are you putting up this thing? I want to know, k.
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Ok, i'll see about making the pen and paper cast tutorials this weekend. If all goes well, i'll be setting up
the first one on the next week. I stil have to see if i can insert flash movies in the forum...
Then would come the tutorials for coptic binding n the technique i adapted for the small books.
Of course, that depends on my ever shrinking free time....
Another thing, if anyone knows of a Dni related site that would be willing to host these tutorials, it would be great.
I also have a D'ni number and letter game that quizzes you, and i would like to share it too...
the first one on the next week. I stil have to see if i can insert flash movies in the forum...
Then would come the tutorials for coptic binding n the technique i adapted for the small books.
Of course, that depends on my ever shrinking free time....
Another thing, if anyone knows of a Dni related site that would be willing to host these tutorials, it would be great.
I also have a D'ni number and letter game that quizzes you, and i would like to share it too...
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You might try asking the friendly people over at the D'ni Linguistic Fellowship. They might be able to help you find space for your tutorials.
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Thanks to the suggestions received, i contact a couple of probable places
to host these tutorials....
I will wait until next week to see if i get any answers and i'll let y'all know
where and if the site goes up.
Thanks for the encouragement
Shorah
to host these tutorials....
I will wait until next week to see if i get any answers and i'll let y'all know
where and if the site goes up.
Thanks for the encouragement
Shorah
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