HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 06, 2017, 5:26 PM 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 Animats » Sun, Aug 06, 2017, 8:50 PM UTC

legolassexyman wrote: post #48

kwekly wrote: post #47

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I work in the control room for an electrical generation system an this isn't the case at all for us. Each desk has 12 ~30 inch monitors, and each monitor has a similar degree of information density, from monitors of system frequency, voltages, power flows etc. around the network, also financial / market information. There's a mix of diagrams, tabular data, maps, plots. Two of the monitors are devoted to a geographic…

I work in this industry and there are a lot of bad UI choices all around. The picture of the California board looks like a good example and uncluttered. They have the budget out there to do that. It doesn't have to be this way. There are standards for high performance HMI design where nothing is colored in unless it is an alarm condition. I usually have to end up designing things the "bad way" because of customer exp…

Post by hughw » Mon, Aug 07, 2017, 12:33 AM UTC

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Post by laumars » Mon, Aug 07, 2017, 1:12 PM UTC

Rjevski wrote: post #17

thatcherc wrote: post #12

Are there any efforts to make movie-type window styles for real use? The Tron:Legacy style would be a fun one to have, as well as the one used in the computers in Westworld (similar light-blue-on-black)[1] and Interstellar [2]. I'm sure it's a more difficult process than I'm imagining, but it would be really cool to be able to use the window and interface themes of the computers in your favorite show or movie, especi…

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.