flashin flashfox

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/812443


Looks like it might be a load of flash that's gonna get me the end result I need.
shit

examples:
http://www.liveagg.com/

http://www.haterpaintball.com/


tutorial :

http://www.jesseharding.com/blog/2008/02/22/creating-a-background-that-moves-with-your-mouse-in-flash/

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/interactive_image_pan.htm

mixed with

http://www.adrianpelletier.com/2009/05/31/create-a-realistic-hover-effect-with-jquery-ui/

ATRG trip aboot the place

written up notes above.


Trip to Bonnington and a walk about the guys facilities, small intro in to some of their stuff, the processes and machines.
Although it wasnt directly related to the brief I'd chosen I found it real useful. After meeting the TEAM and getting abit of insight into what they do, I think my idea needs to shifted about abit.
Ive been dead keen on hammering space home, but I think the concept of using the thread needs to be the one I investigate more.

After listening to what the fella had to say I was left feeling my idea of space might be a bit irrelevant. I got the impression from the 'client' they’re pretty close KNIT. waaa The group appear to be really direct and focused. Pick a problem, solve it, pass it on to a spin out company, start again. That’s not at all what I was expecting from a research group. It made me wander if my ideas a bit fancy, unnecessary and not relevant to the client. I’ve been questioning whether my loyalty lies with the client, or the brief. I got home and immediately changed my mind, setting up shop with the idea of the piece of thread (earlier mentioned concept) as that’s more direct, that after meeting them, I think they’d be into more.

Buuut.

After writing the post for me blog, I changed me mind.

I think my responsibility and loyalty lies with both the client, and the brief and myself. I want to create a piece of work I’m real pleased to show off, both with design and the considerations behind it, I want it to be fulfilling the criteria of the brief, creating a sense of anticipation and awe, but a relevant representation and branding to the client. This has led me to realise the best option is going to be, combining both concepts, so perhaps space would create a new identity that matches the problem solving area of their process. It fits the brief so well. Having said that, my brief allows me to rebrand, to create a new identity and character of the company to some extent, so there’s wiggle room.

Best case scenario, carry on sailing the jquery seas to get some stuff ready for David’s session next Thursday, investigate, explore and develop both ideas to a point where I’m comfortable and and have my journey mapped.

CRAFTSMAP !

http://www.jscraft.net/plugins/craftmap.html

this is so close to what I want !!

http://srobbin.com/jquery-plugins/backstretch/
background !

http://speckyboy.com/2010/05/13/50-fundamental-jquery-controls-and-rich-ui-components/


http://speckyboy.com/2012/04/10/40-recently-released-jquery-plugins/
so many good tutorials and demos on this site well worth taking a look at. 

prezzeh

client project test 1 on Prezi

had a mess around on prezi to see if I could create some sort of prototype or mock up, but tbf its not really capable of creating what I'm after.

I want more of a fluid navigation, whereby the viewpoint or 'camera' angle stays the same, not zooms in and out to this degree. Not a waste of time however, nudged me towards a much clearer notion of what I want. The user must be able to see the whole screen at all times in order to explore the galaxy rather than be catapulted about abit. I want the user to be in charge, this approach is too heavy for me, I dont want to be deciding their experience. Back to a collab on starfields I recks.

do like the idea of adding a pan and zoom, but not as a primary decision.

idea development

minipost.

Got in touch with my friend, a photography sort, about drafting in some help to photograph some thread, or some material instead of obviously using space as a theme, to more hint at it using subtleties, and a macro lens. something to think about. Think I mentioned it in a previous post, but its another version of my idea ima gonna explore, once ive got a background and steady footing on possible ways of making this happen. I wanna make sure ive got a solid block to start from before i go mental.

scrolling pathways

Tutorial, cheers leigh.

few different ways of navigating the page, sort of to give that spacey feel.

http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/awesome-jquery-plugins-for-creating-single-page-websites/

this ones incredible
http://janne.aukia.com/zoomooz/

think its gonna be a case of mixing them all together, attending a load of Davids (hopefully) upcoming sessions on how to tweak tutorials in order to create a wicked experience. the spehere and jquery tutorials ive done are all circling hesitantly around my idea, gonna look at all areas and approaches to me concept and doing it justice, expect more texty posts.



starfield

http://creativejs.com/tutorials/three-js-part-1-make-a-star-field/

http://codeincomplete.com/posts/2011/5/22/javascript_starfield/




now ive got some basic resources ima have a go at making a prototype, or mock up t make sure im running away with a sweet, do able idea.
initially im looking for the zoom, the scrolling pathway and the one page plugins.

Starfield

http://www.chiptune.com/starfield/starfield.html

If you peep real hard, should be able to make out some stars.
Tis a starfield, one of 12 amazing javascript 'applications' found on the above link. Interacts real nice with the mouse, probably not briming with relevance to my project in terms of something I could shove directly in it, but its skirting around the idea I wanna create. I've been having a look at html 5 canvas's an' all which allow for some incredible effects real similar in effect and experience to the one I wanna create for my project. Gonna continue with the search, do some investigative research to see if there's any online tutorials or lessons in regards to this sort of effect I might be able to learn from, and maybe mash up with other stuff I've learnt.

Real good starting foot, efforts trying to figure out the terms and keywords of elements for this kinda thing though, to isolate existing products of a similar nature to learn from. loada searching coming my way.


FOUND ONE :

http://creativejs.com/tutorials/three-js-part-1-make-a-star-field/