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Fig. 7. A typical application framework for form interface systems of databases
Around the same time, we in the academy made another challenge to extend
synthetic media architecture from two dimensional representation media to three
dimensional representation media [7]. This extension was named IntelligentBox.
While, in IntelligentPad, each child pad is clipped by its parent pad, each child box in
IntelligentBox is bound by the coordinate system spanned by its parent box. We were
especially interested in its application to interactive 3D information visualization
[8][9] and interactive virtual studio for easily making computer animation movies
using interactively controllable virtual movie cameras [10].
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Meme Media Architecture as Reorientation
of the Architecture
The present author's motivation of developing IntelligentPad was different from the
goals of these companies. It was to accelerate the repetition of the “plan-do-see” cycle
for supporting creative thinking. Once we come up with a new idea, we will make a
plan, then try to execute this plan, and observe and analyze the result to conceive a
new idea. What makes the repetition of this cycle take more time than our thought
process is the difficulty of executing a plan. The execution of a plan with a computer
system requires the development of a new application to check the result or to analyze
something. His original motivation of developing the synthetic media architecture was
to speed up this phase of developing a new application on demand by enabling people
themselves to easily combine reusable pads to compose complex applications as
composite pads without writing a single line of code.
While the same technology had also revolutionized the software development of
client-side applications especially when it was used with appropriate application
frameworks, our group in Hokkaido University became interested in the world-wide
sharing and reusing of knowledge resources represented as composite pads around
early 90s, and named this aspect of synthetic media “meme media” [2][3] after the
 
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