HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene

Post by djsumdog » Sun, Aug 06, 2017, 7:14 AM UTC

martin_ky wrote: post #27

Rjevski wrote: post #17

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The main problem with this kind of UI is information overload (which is the desired effect in movies, since the viewer isn't actually supposed to "use" nor understand all of the info displayed). There's no way to make this usable unless you lower the amount of info displayed, but then it will loose its "cool" factor.

Exactly. These fictional UIs are designed for a single end - to look good on camera. I think there is an inverse correlation between "cool" and "useful" - the "cool" often distracts from the "useful". While this kind of UI could work for something trivial like a simple calculator or alarm clock, in my experience it does not work for serious applications. As works of art however, these things are a beauty to look at -…

Post by icelancer » Sun, Aug 06, 2017, 7:20 AM UTC

unkown-unknowns wrote: post #25

arscan wrote: post #21

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I used browserify to bundle in Three.js and all the other dependencies. Yes, it's an embarrassingly large JS package. There are probably better ways of doing this, but being a weekend project I decided that it wasn't worth my time to investigate ;-) If you look at the commits, I just tried to push a few lines of code every day (nights, weekends) over the course of a couple of months. It adds up.

I am quite stupid, I always thought that when people on HN talked about their weekend projects they meant something that they'd made in a single weekend. Only now upon reading your comment do I realize that it means something one is working on over any number of weekends. I've been on HN for about 7 years :/ All this time I've been wondering why it takes me weeks of weekends to complete what others do in a single wee…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 06, 2017, 8:11 AM UTC

martin_ky wrote: post #27

Rjevski wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main problem with this kind of UI is information overload (which is the desired effect in movies, since the viewer isn't actually supposed to "use" nor understand all of the info displayed). There's no way to make this usable unless you lower the amount of info displayed, but then it will loose its "cool" factor.

Exactly. These fictional UIs are designed for a single end - to look good on camera. I think there is an inverse correlation between "cool" and "useful" - the "cool" often distracts from the "useful". While this kind of UI could work for something trivial like a simple calculator or alarm clock, in my experience it does not work for serious applications. As works of art however, these things are a beauty to look at -…

Post by Kenji » Sun, Aug 06, 2017, 10:06 AM UTC

Post by kang » Sun, Aug 06, 2017, 10:27 AM UTC