ScatterPoint is custom software that generates PowerPoint-type presentations in real-time using text, data, and images culled from the Internet. The materials are gathered based on searches assembled from words spoken by the performer, along with random words and phrases.
It is used in a game called Slideshow Improv, where contestants must present the often-nonsensical but always hilarious generated slides as if they were part of a coherent presentation.
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Jeff – this sounds really interesting – is it just vaporware or is there an binary or source somewhere?
If you are working on it now, I’d suggest you could piece it together using a stitch up of S5, Markdown and Pandoc. See my delicious bookmarks on the subject. http://delicious.com/snarkhunt/s5 http://delicious.com/snarkhunt/presentation
You could generate a Markdown document very easily. Then use Pandoc to turn it quickly into an s5 presentation.
Unfortunately it is just a twinkle in my eye right now. Let’s talk though.
hey! please make this, would love to take part in the performance.
Jeff- this is brilliant. Would love to feature it on our site: collaborationking.com where executives spend way to much time on powerpoint!
Please let us know when it goes live!