StretchText was coined by Ted Nelson and is the idea of having the detail of content in a document to be user-controllable. Meaning that text nodes can be expanded and contracte, for instance depending on reader’s interests. It’s comparable to zooming in the domain of detail or meaning.

Variable Level-of-detail Documents (Weston Beecroft)
http://symbolflux.com/lodessay/

http://www.telescopictext.com

Joe Coleman (personal website)
https://getcoleman.com
Here, the criterion is intensity or confidence.

“PANE is a live, functional programming environment built around data-visibility. In PANE, all intermediate values are visible by default, and you construct a program by acting on these concrete values.”

http://joshuahhh.com/projects/pane/

Explores the visuality and visual consequences of power relations and laws.