to see an example of the affordances of the sketchpad (discussed yesterday), which aimed for a kind of "magical paper" or smart paper, please see on the CD that comes with the New Media Reader, the short quicktime movie with Alan Kay's demonstration = CD: SAMPLE: KAY_TALK.MOV

-> also please compare this video, available online, that demonstrates how the creation of new media comes ON TOP of all the properties of physical media, adding new properties that are 'meta' - e.g. spline: bezier control is clumsy - adding control points (softimage, NURBS).

the centre pompidou: archicture non-standard video, especially when compared to alan kay's demo, should appeal to you as architects: centre pompidou: architecture non-standard