Lexia to Perplexia has narratives that play with different “computer language”. In the narratives, there are words that look like HTML tags and computer file extensions, such as “” and “transmission exe.tension”. It also plays with different mathematical equations in the text. Clicking on the links either brings up other narratives, or makes some type of image come up. It can make text shift positions, it can make pictures come up, and it can make your screens change. You can also change the background and make text appear or disappear just by running your mouse over a certain spot on the screen. I definitely did not understand the plot here. <\/p>\n
In The Bomar Gene, you click on a part of the “gene” that scrolls by, and that will bring up text underneath that gives you a fragment of the story. There is also other text that scrolls underneath. In some lexia, there are also puzzles that the reader must figure out. <\/p>\n
Lexia to Perplexia is similar to the Bomar Gene in that running your cursor over the text and clicking the links has different results. Sometimes it pulls up more text, sometimes it pulls up another page, sometimes it shifts the position of the text, etc. Most of the examples of hypertext we’ve studied so far have only one function of the link: to take us to another lexia. With both of these sites, the function of the link is very dynamic. Both of these sites also incorporate Flash animations into their sites to give us changing graphics, flashing text, and interactive links. The Bomar Gene is a little easier and more interesting to figure out, since it gives you clues how to work each link and seems to have a bigger variation of graphics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lexia to Perplexia has narratives that play with different “computer language”. In the narratives, there are words that look like HTML tags and computer file extensions, such as “” and “transmission exe.tension”. It also plays with different mathematical equations in the text. Clicking on the links either brings up other narratives, or makes some type … Continue reading Lexia to Perplexia vs. The Bomar Gene<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}