Apple's CoreAnimation vs. Sun's Looking Glass
After watching the WWDC keynote and looking at CoreAnimation I began to ponder.
Something tells me that we will see CoreAnimation enabled at the Finder level and even application level.
I think we will even see the dock take advantage of this in some way.
For anyone who has not watched the keynote I would recommend to do so and then check out Sun's Project Looking Glass website here: http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/ . They even have a demo. What Sun demos is basically what was demo?d with CoreAnimation.
This alone would warrant ?Top Secret? as this would be huge and would pretty much steal Vista?s thunder for sure.
Your thoughts?
Something tells me that we will see CoreAnimation enabled at the Finder level and even application level.
I think we will even see the dock take advantage of this in some way.
For anyone who has not watched the keynote I would recommend to do so and then check out Sun's Project Looking Glass website here: http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/ . They even have a demo. What Sun demos is basically what was demo?d with CoreAnimation.
This alone would warrant ?Top Secret? as this would be huge and would pretty much steal Vista?s thunder for sure.
Your thoughts?
Comments
When I first saw Looking Glass my job dropped.
When I first saw CoreAnimation I thought Looking Glass for Mac OS X is becoming a reality!
Apple would be very wise to intergrate CoreAnimation in this fashion into the Finder.
I sure hope we will see another more feature rich demo of Leoperd at Macworld SF 2007!
Exactly my thoughts.
When I first saw Looking Glass my job dropped.
When I first saw CoreAnimation I thought Looking Glass for Mac OS X is becoming a reality!
Apple would be very wise to intergrate CoreAnimation in this fashion into the Finder.
I sure hope we will see another more feature rich demo of Leoperd at Macworld SF 2007!
When I saw Looking Glass, my head dropped...into my hands...in disappointment. I really hope people don't go overboard with CoreAnimation making pseudo-3D interfaces. Layers of animations are cool...keep them in 2D space when it comes to interfaces, k thx.
I find the TIme Machine interface cheezy. I hope it's not an indication of things to come.
When I saw Looking Glass, my head dropped...into my hands...in disappointment. I really hope people don't go overboard with CoreAnimation making pseudo-3D interfaces. Layers of animations are cool...keep them in 2D space when it comes to interfaces, k thx.
I find the TIme Machine interface cheezy. I hope it's not an indication of things to come.
Agreed. There are interesting ways to use animation and 3D space to leverage screen real estate, such as the "flippable" widgets.
But if you really want to go crazy you need to rethink some of the fundamental ways users interact with their computers, not just add a lot of "rotating panels in the distance" stuff to the existing desktop.
A whole new UI based on smoothly animated "3D" space could be amazing. Aqua with a bunch of spinning and receding planes would be headache inducing and the final triumph of flash over substance.
OTOH, Apple might have some great ideas here, ways of genuinely improving usability, but, like Kim Kap Sol, the TM interface that is being shown doesn't fill me with optimism. I dunno, maybe it's just the cheesy "vortex in space" thing..... well, that, and the completely unnecessary 3D "I am laying down in the plane pointing at the vortex" treatment of the bottom frame.
So, if they just replace the stars with the desktop background, I'm happy
If someone could do it right, it would be Apple.
Well, I suspect you will be able to turn the 3D interface either on or off.
If someone could do it right, it would be Apple.
Here's hoping.
At the very least I'm assuming you can pick your background, and not be stuck with the vortex in space (which, I have to say, strikes me as very "un-apple" looking).
On another note, is it time to start worrying about apps that "make the desktop go away" with groovy sliding animations?
Dashboard and now Time Machine, doing their thing in some kind of ill-defined nether world--much more of that and things could very weird.