{"id":882,"date":"2011-09-27T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T02:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2011-09-27T12:19:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T02:19:49","slug":"interesting-use-of-3d-ui-in-music-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Interesting use of 3D UI in music software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile back I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=819\">wrote<\/a> about music technology being one of the areas pushing new user interface\\interaction technologies, such as the Kinect, and the Wii before it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m a little behind on this one, but this video preview of AudioGL is another example, this time in terms of 3D UI. <\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bCC9uHHAEuA?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bCC9uHHAEuA?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Apart from the opening credits, the first section is a pretty standard, albeit slick, 2D interface along the lines of other modular DAWs  or instruments. However, around the 8 minute mark he suddenly zooms back from that 2D interface to show all the modules connected on a plane, with the automation tracks flowing through the property on the 2D interface and away to a vanishing point in the distance. Shades of Tron meet Dance Dance Revolution. <\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if this interface would be useful or usable for composition, it appears it may be more oriented towards performance, but I&#8217;m impressed with the leap of imagination taken to render automation on the &#8220;z axis&#8221;, and I&#8217;m now wondering about the possibilities for generating 3D datapoints dynamically and the applicability to other domains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile back I wrote about music technology being one of the areas pushing new user interface\\interaction technologies, such as the Kinect, and the Wii before it. Well, I&#8217;m a little behind on this one, but this video preview of AudioGL is another example, this time in terms of 3D UI. Apart from the opening credits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,61],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-firemonkey","tag-user-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}