Post by David H. Brandt on Mar 2, 2009 9:42:25 GMT -5
Howdy y'all,
I'm aiming at doing a cyberspace implementation, in the spirit of maestro William Gibson. If you are interested in pitching in, I'd love some company.
Basically, I'm aiming for algorithmically translating IP network topology into an aesthetic 3D world, hopefully with some utility value as well (at very least for people with multiple monitors), basing on the "City of Text" vision in the 1995 movie "Hackers", placing servers in a digital landscape based among other on GeoIP and WhoIs information
The UI would be a tabbed browser, with the user located in different areas of cyberspace on each tab. At the top of the screen would be an omnibar akin to Chrome's that would f.ex. make the user zip to the correct location.
Servers would be visualized via different means, depending on their form and function. F.ex.
Depending on team size and composition, there should be room for all sorts of fun twists.
F.ex.
Best regards,
David / david@marimo.is / 894-1929
I'm aiming at doing a cyberspace implementation, in the spirit of maestro William Gibson. If you are interested in pitching in, I'd love some company.
Basically, I'm aiming for algorithmically translating IP network topology into an aesthetic 3D world, hopefully with some utility value as well (at very least for people with multiple monitors), basing on the "City of Text" vision in the 1995 movie "Hackers", placing servers in a digital landscape based among other on GeoIP and WhoIs information
The UI would be a tabbed browser, with the user located in different areas of cyberspace on each tab. At the top of the screen would be an omnibar akin to Chrome's that would f.ex. make the user zip to the correct location.
Servers would be visualized via different means, depending on their form and function. F.ex.
- a web site could additionally be visualized using a rasterized web-browser UI. This could be done via an external image capture program, or if via embedding an actual browser component.
- ftp could be done via a graphical and/or textual component
- servers that are cooperative could provide 3D information and the like.
Depending on team size and composition, there should be room for all sorts of fun twists.
F.ex.
- the UI could also interface with other applications/information sources, such as Facebook, MSN . Thus f.ex. you could perhaps see your contacts on the right side of the screen and clicking on them would cause a communications session to launch.
- the UI and omnibar could act as a "start bar" / "task bar" to launch applications (on a separate display, unless the team has major cohones)
- searching could f.ex. be done in a similar fashion as shown in today's lecture
Best regards,
David / david@marimo.is / 894-1929