Hi Ken,
My inclination would be data driven animation on a grid, kind of like the OSX dock, but in two
dimensions, and with much smaller graphics on the perimeter. When an image is clicked, animate the
focus point to that image. At each step, recompute the size and location of elements in the grid
relative to the location of the focus point. If you want the focus point to appear to remain fixed,
and the grid to appear to animate, then still move the focus point relative to the grid, but have an
offset point that maps grid space to screen space.
Kind Regards,
Daniel
Ken wrote:
Hi List,
Here's a challenge: I'm trying to create a photo-album - type interface,
with a larger picture in the centre and other topics arranged around it
in a semi-random placement. The centre photo itself has a small
location displacement so that it is not always in the exact centre of
the screen.
Photos around this first one become smaller the further away from
centre they are, rather like a z-depth effect for variation, yet not so
pronounced because it's essentially a 2D interface.
I'm trying to create it dynamically, so that it parses any number of
"photos", and can be displayed, or paged (split up into multiple
screens). When an image is clicked on, the timeline goes to a photo
album page and shows that text and image. The Database stuff is all
done, but it's the image placement VIA lingo that is the unknown.
Possible solutions seem to be:
1. OOP and lingo everything - as images are pulled from the database,
lingo automatically places them by converting points on a circle
(radians?) into X,Y, and a slightly random resize is added. A list is
maintained so the page looks the same when a user navigates to it. A
caption and mouseover sound is stored in the OOP property to keep it
with that image, and played / displayed when required. I'm a beginner in
OOP approaches, though I sense it would simplify the code.
2. Alternatively, place all images in a grid, with lists keeping track
of which caption and sound belongs to which image. Then add a limited
random offset to the position and size of the images.
3. Or, the non-lingo approach with empty sprites already positioned, and
the members updated to show new photo albums. Randomness could still be
added tot he placement and maintained.
Another way to think of this is like a memory card game, in terms of
placement and interactivity, but where the cards need to be different
sizes and overlap.
Invited are all thoughts on strategy and lingo for this. Thanks for your
time.
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