I made similar UI for a tool. Here is what it looked like https://vimeo.com/manage/386239513/general https://vimeo.com/manage/386239513/general. Initially I had

I made similar UI for a tool. Here is what it looked like https://vimeo.com/manage/386239513/general https://vimeo.com/manage/386239513/general. Initially I had plans of making an infinite drawable layer on top of which tools resided. Talking to self - Sadly, I thought it is not convincing to others so I went for panel based UI. https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor. This article helped to realise that there are other computer interface ideas which is better and less popular. Idea that is stuck in my mind for a long time , and evolving, is to have A blender like 3d environment which has zoomable and rotatable 3d interface that has hardware interrupts as signals and resources as spaces. When zoomed from distance it looks like a light source, on zoom closer it starts to appear as a computer hardware parts showing date and instruction flow. (Do not worry about frame rate yet)