feelin zoomy?

the quick glance at some of the ZUI (Zoomable User Interface) projects going on…

http://www.zoomorama.com :: very cool little mousey screen button

http://www.relevare.com/site/ :: interesting block zooms (the green ones) – dual-level fractalicious

http://www.topicscape.com/onlineDemo.php?id=3 :: 3D landscape mindmapping (demos)
http://www.topicscape.com/mindmaps/?type=CM :: concept maps (interesting code – vertical bar | between topics)

http://www.marcmoini.com/f3_en.html :: 3D Space VFS (Visual File System) like flatland for files.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/projects/oldprojects/3dosx/screenshots.html :: 3DOSX… your files… swirling around in a swimming pool! sweet!

http://www.tactile3d.com/tac.php?opt=overview&subopt=intro :: not sure about this one… i think it shows your files graphically represented as pieces of equipment on a spaceship… this kind of thing would be good for hotline…

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.html :: truly zoomy alphabet click-writing

http://andrea.l.vitali.googlepages.com/zdesktop :: traditional nested directories, zoomable. “FILEMAGE is the new prototype of the zoomable file-system viewer.”

http://www.duncanjauncey.com/btinternet/zoomdesk/index.html :: Ye Olde ZoomDesk (5/05)

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/index.shtml :: piccolo… “This browser does not support embedded .NET controls. Supported browsers include Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.”

http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/SystemRequirements.html :: EagleMode – not a pretty file system, but it’s got games (and fractals)

http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/index.html :: BlueBottle? Oberon? Active Object System? say what?

http://positlog.com/ :: draggable and zoomable webpage! sweet! yo quiero!!

http://www.osmosoft.com/cecily/ :: an experimental ZUI for tiddlywiki by the osmonauts. hands down, the zoomiest.

http://www.panoramas.dk :: not so much zoomy as panny, but the wraparound idea is nice.

Tags: 3D Space VFS, 3DOSX, bluebottle, dasher, eaglemode, filemage, panoramas.dk, piccolo, positlog, Project Cicely, relevare, tactile3D, tiddlywiki, topicscape, zoomarama, zoomdesk, ZUI