Hi Alex. Yes those are great picto's. Talking about chinees: There is similarity between picto's and the Chinese writing.
And more as an idea: I saw a study once about the way people remember their pincode by remembering the pattern they type on the grid. The same study used a qwerty keyboard on a square grid. The pattern typed for a word results as a drawing, similar to a Chinese sign.....western chinees! It's a little abstract but also a way to put information in a image. On Apr 26, 12:42 pm, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > athttp://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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. -- 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.
