[Fenfire-dev] Re: [vos-d] a 3D interface vision

[Heikki Salo]

On Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, at 16:47 Europe/Helsinki, Toni Alatalo wrote:

> 2. Sense of space and direction (related to orientation) has been discussed when making views to information structures.
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> The latter is partly related to how ZigZag is locally euclidian and perhaps hence creates such sense of space, but RDF (which Fenfire uses) is different. this elaborated a bit later here.
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> (what else?-)
the straightforward way of navigating  in an 'infite' virtual space is to simply be able to recenter the display and zoom in/out. then you can simply furnish the user with a magic wand that he/she can jump out of a place and into an other. this is easy enough for mr and mrs everybody to get into. the goal in designing ui should be 'no need for instructions - least amount of background knowledge required' .

hope this wasn't self evident :)

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