Re: menus and pictagrams, this is cool: http://www.bookfromtheground.com/home_english.htm
Its the work of a chinese artist. ALex On 26 April 2010 10:11, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bauwe, > > I think it were great if - when hovering any of the pictograms in the > overview - a corresponding title or summary could be rendered in some > "title" container, e.g. right below or above the pictograms. > > Together with some nice jQuery transitions, I think TiddlyPictoWiki > would make for a highly attractive menu or navigation. > > Just as TiddlyPictoWiki does now, imagine your tiddlywiki to start > with nothing but this kind of pictographic collection. Upon click, the > display zooms in on an associated content-tiddler or tiddler-category > (whereas tiddlers were associated via tags or fields). Upon selecting > an element from the initial pictographic overview there are a few > possible alternatives to keep on navigating the pictographic > landscape: > > 1) The most simple seems a "home" button (or bar) on any of the screen- > edges, whereas clicking on it will redisplay the initial pictographic > overview. This could also be a "back" button displayed in any of the > corners of the "content box" corresponding to the currently selected > pictogram. > > 2) Slightly more sophisticated would be to shrink all pictographs to a > predefined side of the screen into either a row or a column, in which > the currently selected item was somehow highlighted (via some border > or background). Clicking on an additional "home" button on that row/ > column would redisplay the initial full-size pictographs. > TiddlyPictoWiki already works a bit like that only just that it > doesn't shrink "non-active" pictograms, doesn't display a related > content tiddler and that a left or right column, or a top-row are not > yet an option. > > 3) Quite sophisticated in terms of (jQuery) animation would be to > arrange all pictograms in a centered rectangular grid (of which not > all cells necessarily had to be in use). If a pictogram were clicked, > one could then - depending on their initial position in the grid - > slide+shrink all non-selected pictograms to a position on the screen > edges corresponding to their position in the initial grid... while at > the same time zoom in on the content tiddler corresponding to the > selected pictogram. Clicking on any of the shrinked pictograms sitting > on a screen edge would zoom in on that while shrinking (or fading) the > previously selected pictrogram to its corresponding spot on the edge. > Again, a "home" button would redisplay the large initial grid. > > All these ideas seem quite intriguing ...with less of a focus on a > pictographic library than on what to actually do with pictograms. I > love the potential of this stuff! > > Tobias. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
