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Originally Posted by arkain101
I've been working on a tiny project recently.
The idea is a software program that installs onto an operating system, and after performing a system scan, provides the ability to interact with the computer in a way not typically possible.
This software concept is to provide the ability to use, direction, shape, color, size, and even texture to aid a computer user's efficiency.
I have included some images. What they illustrate is the basic concept in a very simple visual form. It is the theoretical image you would see on your screen when you enable the program in place of your normal desktop. But, it would not just be an image, it would be an interactive peice of visual software. You click on a "circle" (buttons) and it zooms to a comfortable view, and, the previously faded buttons (we see in the images) extending outward are able to be read. As the view is zoomed, more detail in the extending web of data on the hard drive is pulled into view.
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Good idea. Identical, in fact, the Apple's "Hot Chocolate" experiment, IIRC.
Same idea, of a 3D interface you'd zoom into and back out.
Keep the good ideas coming.
Maybe Apple can find a way to incorporate this 3D approach into the next version of CoverFlow.
Safari 4.0 uses CoverFlow to track backward into browser history: perhaps with better contextual linking it will be possible to jump from any history link to similar links or bookmarks, or even to sites you've never been to.
Search on Carrots Love Tomatoes, for example. Activate Coverflow, and see not only the Amazon.com listing for that book, but links to other books on Companion Planting, Tomato gardening, recipes, etc, all laid out in 3D.
