Why I think full 3D is inevitable... though fully integrated with 2D,
with text, and with
databases.

Most information management will begin to look like how a large
building is built.

Building Information Modeling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Information_Modeling

... to manage complexity and coordinate communication in real time for
a multitude of information participants and interests.

Cheers,
Darius


On 1/7/07, Derek O'Connell <dmoc02 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> tim Rowledge wrote:
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> > And none of it stops me thinking that is a bad idea to
> > photophysically emulate a bad way of working.
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> I wish someone would tell that to every organisation that attempts to chain
> it's employees to desks for 8 hours+ a day :-)
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> Back to the video, it is some months old now and I think all the criticisms
> that could be made have been. Still, on a superficial level it is excellent
> eye candy and I for one don't understand the general aversion of the Squeak
> community to eye candy. Image sells and that's a fact... and I think
> Squeak/Smalltalk could have done with some eye-candy style interfaces and
> marketing. It could also be argued that EToys is eye candy?
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> Regarding 3D, for a long time I believed that 3D was the future but
> eventually came to the conclusion that 2.5D is more suitable in most cases
> and this is an prime example. I agree it has flaws but I think it should be
> viewed as possibly appropriate for working at a particular level, eg, with a
> small subset of documents/data. Plus it presents an immediately familiar
> metaphor that almost anyone can relate to. I lost faith in full blown 3D
> metaphors because the examples I have seen overwhelm the user and/or
> abstract away any common meaning. A good metric for future interfaces is: do
> they even need explaining, let alone an operators manual (yuuuuk!).
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> ...or should I just say: I like it!
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