“Spectra, a news visualization tool, gives consumers an alternate way to navigate msnbc.com in a three dimensional viewing state. Spectra offers comprehensive, up-to-the-minute news coverage, user customization, dynamic browsing and human body interaction. Spectra’s alluring design displays msnbc.com’s news headlines, fueled by RSS feeds, as colorful, graphic whirlwinds of movement and continually updated live headlines. Users can choose the news categories that interest them most, save stories to Spectra’s NewsCollector for later reading, filter their news by keywords and select various viewing states. “
Wow! Another beautifully styled Papervision3D application hits the web. This application is developed in the Netherlands by Remon Tijssen from Fluid and Marco Christis for SS+K.
Remon elaborates on the design : “The logo is designed based upon the 3D interface design and shape. The 3D cloud visualizes the news using the entire colour spectrum”.
All we can say to that is : Good looking indeed!
May 14, 2008 at 8:39 am |
There’s only a screenshot? Or did you forget to put up the link?
May 15, 2008 at 9:21 am |
Is just me or does that look really bad? The text can be very distorted as they’ve used too few triangles to help speed up rendering and the copy does not animate well. Nice in theory but doesn’t work in practice
May 15, 2008 at 10:59 am |
the text looks really distorted… should have used precise mode…
September 6, 2008 at 1:54 pm |
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