G-Speak Spatial Operating Environment 3D User Interface

[Ben]

The other experiment I conducted was a 3d hairchy. I lost interest since the public beta only supported a small picture and the icon could not be rendered while retaining shading. and never re-wrote this for the official release.

The icon are not rendered but the relationships are shown.

The new official reales does not have these limitiaions!

f some one want to run with developing the 3d hiarchy let me know and I post what I have.

Ben

Message Edited by Ben on 03-10-2009 08:25 AM

[altenbach]

I really don't like the cubes, they look so old-fashioned. 😉

Why can't we have Platonic Solids for 3D subVIs? 😄

[Ben]

Well this is one

 

I realized I did not outline what I had in mind for the 3d hiarchy.

Imagine the top VI is the apex of a cone. Its sub-VI's would be evenlly spaced around the circle that defines the base of the cone. As more sub-VI call layers are added the smae idea applies where the caller is the apex of a cone with caller about the base.

Shared sub-VIs' would be a special case and they would live on the surface of a cylinder who's top is the base of the cone of the top VI that calls it.

Ben 

[RobCole]

Interesting that I envisioned all of the cubes (subVIs) with the same orientation. It would certainly be easier to code (from the environment point of view).

If you really wanted to push the environment, all cubes (if that's what you use) could be in any orientation and wires could be curves (I had envisioned straight lines with square corners, but why limit yourself?).

I'm not sure that I'll have time to draw something up, but it's interesting to envision.

     Rob

[RobCole]

Okay, I'll admit that this has run through my mind a couple of times.

This weekend while I was trying to draw what it would look like with wires attaching cubes (I'm not ready to show those efforts yet), I thought: why limit wires to the edges of the connector panels? You can connect wires in to the center as well.

So here is my revised worst case senario: 8x8 connector on all 6 sides = 384 connections.

         

Have fun...

     Rob

Message Edited by Robert Cole on 03-17-2009 02:57 PM

[Ben]

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Robert Cole wrote:

Okay, I'll admit that this has run through my mind a couple of times.

This weekend while I was trying to draw what it would look like with wires attaching cubes (I'm not ready to show those efforts yet), I thought: why limit wires to the edges of the connector panels? You can connect wires in to the center as well.

So here is my revised worst case senario: 8x8 connector on all 6 sides = 384 connections.

         

Have fun...

     Rob

Message Edited by Robert Cole on 03-17-2009 02:57 PM

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"My brain hurts!" (M Python)

Ben

[tst]

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Ben wrote:

"My brain hurts!"

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Hey! I resent that! 😄

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

A portable, budget version of a versatile interface in development is the Sixth Sense. Pretty imperessive using COTS devices.

Video gets interesting near the 3 minute mark.

http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/sixth_sense_demo.php

-AK2DM

[Ben]

Although all of those experiments are interesting I don't think there is a future in them since they require too much work to use. The average lazy American would play with it for a day or two but eventually will be reaching for the remote control before long.

Now if those app would actually track our eyes, THEN they will have something. Zooming in would be crossing our eyes, clicking would be an appropriate blink and off course when we close our eyes that will signal app shutdown.

Ben

[altenbach]

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Ben wrote:

Now if those app would actually track our eyes, THEN they will have something.

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Now we can even close the circle and do the eye tracking using LabVIEW. 😄