Posts by J. L. Brown

1) Message boards : News : Visualization/Screensaver Work (Message 38360) Posted 8 Apr 2010 by J. L. Brown Post: Hi Eric! I like the zoom-in / zoom-out intervals idea presented in option #2. A couple things to add: I strongly support the addition of a graphical screen-saver; the interval between view changes should be user configurable; the interface should NOT be modeled after LCARS--LCARS was designed to look static & unexciting, and there are many Fictional User Interfaces available for use as inspiration; the best-current galaxy model used in the zoom-out mode should be displayed in much the same statistical-color code fashion as the wedges; the screen-saver should definitely show current, previous, and available work in near-real time; and it might be nice to have an extreme-zoom-in mode as well, showing only the objects within ~500 ly of Terra. That last is much less relevant to the project, I know. Sorry. But it seems likely that at least a few of the objects in the SDSS will fall into that range, and a good 3-D local map would be a very interesting recruiting piece.