Yes the 3D window manager looks a lot at the idea I want to work on. Any point in the 3D WM (a good name!) has three components: (x, y, z)
these are projected on the visible 2D screen, suggesting 3D like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection Very interesting is also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewing_frustum Also important here is what is called in Dutch a "verdwijnpunt". I do not know the translation, but the horizon is something like that, where all parallel lines meet..) Stef Op ma 20 aug. 2018 om 14:15 schreef Tobias Hunger <[email protected]>: > > Hi Stef, > > in my misspent youth I played with Berlin (later Fresco), which went > into that direction. The website is long gone, but the internet > archive has a copy: > https://web.archive.org/web/20080223200807/http://issues.fresco.org:80/ > > The code is still also still around: > https://github.com/stefanseefeld/fresco > > > 3DWM is something similar from back then: > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239744067_3Dwm_A_Platform_for_Research_and_Development_of_Three-Dimensional_User_Interfaces > > Looking Glass from Sun was already mentioned. > > That's all I can think of. > > Best Regards, > Tobias > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 3:36 PM Stef Bon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > There are various desktop effects which offer 3D effects (kube for example). > > > > I want to know I anyone knows about any plan to create a 3D desktop, > > eg a desktop with not only the coordinates height and width, but also > > depth. > > > > I want to work on this, maybe start it. It would be awesome. > > > > Stef > > _______________________________________________ > > Development mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
