Put together a simple transform manager for a friend’s project. Supports dragging and single click scaling and rotating. Source provided after the jump.
Archive for the 'Design' Category
Found an interesting pic today with digg, redditm facebook, twitter, myspace, 4chan, deviantart, youtube, google and wikimedia personified. The artist (unknown) is quite a genius.
Love the graphics in this website. You can navigate through the amazingly detailed town and even build your own room. The UI design is intuitive and the transitions between the many context menus are smooth and polished.
A car with flexible skin and movable metal structures beneath. Theoratically, you an better customize the look of your car, it is scratch resistant and it probably costs less to change the entire “cover” too. But the best part is that it also consumes much less energy to manufacture these compared to full metal casings. Safety is not an issue because crash damping and structural integrity is handled by the frame. Love the lights.
The Kinetic Sculpture is a metaphorical translation of the process of form-finding in art and design. 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors and covering the area of six square meters, animate a seven minute long mechatronic narrative. In the beginning, moving chaotically, then evolving to several competing forms that eventually resolve to the finished object, the Kinetic Sculpture creates an artistic visualisation of the process of form-finding in different variations.
via artcom
A handy tool to help you generate a layout based on the 960 grid system. Good as a starting point for most layout projects.
What’s fascinating about this project is less of the technology than the new form of user interaction that takes advantage of the unique capabilities of this wearable device. The later half of the talk gives a preview of some of these gestures Pranav have designed.
TED Talk
Website: http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
Interesting site presenting social media news in the form of interactive lego blocks.
Online 3d has always been mired by long loading times or unresponsive interface. The thing that caught me was how the author of this site, Masayuki Kido, has taken that apparent limitation and used it to his advantage by combining low poly models with a beautiful cut out style. The illustrations, character designs and witty dialog are are wonderful too, leaving me wanting for more after exploring all the sections. Of course, expect nothing less from the winner of the FWA Site of the year 2008.
Check it out at http://ecodazoo.com/