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  • Eagle Mode -- A Zoomable User Interface

    From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Monday, October 13, 2025 08:58:56
    The concept of a user interface where all user-manipulable objects exist
    in a single space (2D or 3D) where the user navigates by zooming in and
    out has been around as a research curiosity for many years, even decades
    now.

    Eagle Mode <https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/index.html> is one implementation of such an idea. It goes back many years, but development
    still seems to be happening, if not at a great pace. It can apparently run
    on both Windows and Linux.

    There are static screenshots and also videos of the interface in action.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.0
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Theo@3:633/10 to All on Monday, October 20, 2025 15:26:16
    Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    The concept of a user interface where all user-manipulable objects exist
    in a single space (2D or 3D) where the user navigates by zooming in and
    out has been around as a research curiosity for many years, even decades now.

    Eagle Mode <https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/index.html> is one implementation of such an idea. It goes back many years, but development still seems to be happening, if not at a great pace. It can apparently run on both Windows and Linux.

    There are static screenshots and also videos of the interface in action.

    I remember a demo of something like that in ~1996, when 'VR' was all the
    rage.

    They're neat, but does anybody use them for actual work?

    Theo

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)