I dunno about full 3D, but I can see a lot of use cases for using perspective in 2D for enabling 3D navigation/viewing of objects.
I was working on a proof of concept log viewer for example. Say each session has 10 logs, and esch of them is success, failure or netural. Instead of having something like
I rendered all the logs in a session as being "behind" eachother, with a slight x,y offset and gave them colors, which you could then scroll through in the "z" axis. It's pretty nifty way of conveying more information in the same amount of space.
MY prototype tree map nav element is 2D - a plane. You can scroll around and zoom in. It seems good to me. On the other hand, there is a level of complexity that I still do not really understand. What about a cube with a different tree map (or other?) on each face. A rotatable cube does not break the paradigm. (Or a dodecahedron for that matter.)
Another thing I am thinking about is how will the user transition "into" a place? For example, a user finds email on the tremap and now wants to send one. What is the transition to writing an email? The kind of transition is the part I am curious about.
I personally find the concept of going "into" a place most appealing. It makes intuitive sense to me. I zoom into a building in NYC and click on it and I am now "in the place". But the tech part of me says "oh just do an overlay, make the canvas div hidden and put up a little text entry form". Does it matter?
I suspect but do not know that keeping the paradigm => going into a place on the map => would be more engaging, comprehensible, user friendly than suddenly breaking the illusion. But I am just guessing.
clicking on a panel takes you up close. It is pretty easy to add a feature so that when up close another click goes "into the panel". To a room of other panels or objects.
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I was trying to find that gallary one earlier but couldn't find it. Looks neat!
What I am thinking of its more of a mix of a traditional website with some 3D elements.
Every navigation doesnt have to be 3D. For my example, I just put keyboard events for scrolling through the different axis but the information for each logs below the scroller still shows it a regular table format once selected
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I dunno about full 3D, but I can see a lot of use cases for using perspective in 2D for enabling 3D navigation/viewing of objects.
I was working on a proof of concept log viewer for example. Say each session has 10 logs, and esch of them is success, failure or netural. Instead of having something like
Session 1 - log one, log 2, log 3... Session 2 - log one, log 2, log 3...
I rendered all the logs in a session as being "behind" eachother, with a slight x,y offset and gave them colors, which you could then scroll through in the "z" axis. It's pretty nifty way of conveying more information in the same amount of space.
I agree this is an important issue/question.
MY prototype tree map nav element is 2D - a plane. You can scroll around and zoom in. It seems good to me. On the other hand, there is a level of complexity that I still do not really understand. What about a cube with a different tree map (or other?) on each face. A rotatable cube does not break the paradigm. (Or a dodecahedron for that matter.)
Another thing I am thinking about is how will the user transition "into" a place? For example, a user finds email on the tremap and now wants to send one. What is the transition to writing an email? The kind of transition is the part I am curious about.
I personally find the concept of going "into" a place most appealing. It makes intuitive sense to me. I zoom into a building in NYC and click on it and I am now "in the place". But the tech part of me says "oh just do an overlay, make the canvas div hidden and put up a little text entry form". Does it matter?
I suspect but do not know that keeping the paradigm => going into a place on the map => would be more engaging, comprehensible, user friendly than suddenly breaking the illusion. But I am just guessing.
[ And did you look at the image gallery example?
https://lx2h8.csb.app/
clicking on a panel takes you up close. It is pretty easy to add a feature so that when up close another click goes "into the panel". To a room of other panels or objects. ]
I was trying to find that gallary one earlier but couldn't find it. Looks neat!
What I am thinking of its more of a mix of a traditional website with some 3D elements.
Every navigation doesnt have to be 3D. For my example, I just put keyboard events for scrolling through the different axis but the information for each logs below the scroller still shows it a regular table format once selected