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I love UIs from Sci-fi films. Mamoru Oshii also made a live action film in 2001 called Avalon and in it the main character uses a terminal interface that I alw
by flanbiscuit 2y ago
I love UIs from Sci-fi films.
Mamoru Oshii also made a live action film in 2001 called Avalon and in it the main character uses a terminal interface that I always thought was pretty cool. It's almost a classic monochrome terminal interface except there's no vertical scrolling when new data pushes away the old data. Old data goes backwards/behind on the z-index and blurs.
You can see it here:
https://youtu.be/m6NKhXlFU-s https://youtu.be/m6NKhXlFU-s
- anileated 2y agoI wonder why no terminal app implemented Z-axis scrollback like in Avalon, since they increasingly (e.g., Alacritty) boast GPU-based rendering it seems like it wouldn’t be such a resource hog but can look gorgeous. And practical, too. It would make going through multi-screen lengthy program output much more palatable. Part of the problem here is scrolling by arbitrary offsets, of course (imagine being able to just say “it’s N screens back at this point”, where each screen is an unchangeable recognizable landmark), and once that anti-feature is gone pushing screens back on Z becomes the logical next step, allowing for more spatial reasoning. — I use tmux, what’s the point? — Add a button to push a screen back on demand, a way to bookmark screens, and it would elevate multiplexer & TUI experience just as well.