canonical | commentary | quotation | reference | external |
The Split/Join pattern knits two or more sequences together. Split/Join is indispensable to interactive narratives in which the reader's intervention changes the course of events. If each decision changes everything that happens subsequently, authors cannot allow the reader to make any decisions while keeping the work within manageable bounds. Splits permit the narrative to depend on the reader's choise for a limited span, later returning the reader (at least temporarily) to a central core. . . .
The Rashomon pattern ebmeds a split-join within a cycle. The split/join effectively breaks the cycle, as readers explore different splits during each recurrent exploration, yet the cycle remains a prominent frame that provides context for each strand. (Bernstein, p.25.)
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
A performative hypertext presented by Journal of Digital Information