Tuesday, January 15, 2008

There are several classic Mac OS X dock recreations and also fisheye implementations in the wild, but I am looking for something a little unique. The OS X dock and fisheye menus have their items equally spaced. I'm looking for something a bit different than that. Imagine a square with a different number of items on each side. Three on top, ten on the right, 5 on the bottom, and 7 on the left.

So something where the scale of an item rolled with the mouse would affect the scale of others... the three items on the top of the square divide up that space into 3 large chunks, etc. around the edges. So it wouldn't work to be mouse-based. Has anyone seen anything like this?



Update:


What I did was basically have various spheres of influence, depending on mouse position and the changing sphere of influence, I got this to work pretty well. Think fisheye menu or OS X dock with elements that are not evenly spaced out, and in fact are also on different tangents. It might seem hacky, but its working pretty well.

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