LUSTR
(Level of Universal Structure)
A HIGH-LEVEL STRUCTURE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
 

Today's light one-way hypertext (like the Web) is built bottom-up from simple pieces.  This is a principal reason that links break and that only relatively trivial structures can be built, and even these trivial structures are hard for most people to maintain.  The proper place for HTML is simply as an output format (like PostScript) for showing more general, top-down designs under easier control by the user.

LUSTR, or Level of Universal Structure, is a proposed definition language for highly-interactive, multidimensional flying objects.  The author begins by carving n-space into the structures that make sense, then painting text, colors and textures onto surfaces in that space.  "Text formatting" becomes a spatial structure in this surface mapping-- rather than the gnarly system of embedded codes used by HTML and its parent SGML.

Ideally, a LUSTR structure can be the distribution version of a document or production, and a local LUSTR server can present it in HTML (or whatever other output format).