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Google Gravity, replicated
- shuw 14y agoThe most interesting effect happened when I entered in search terms. If the search box was focused on page load, that "feature" would be more discoverable.
- hornbaker 14y agoWow, pretty impressive tilting that around on an iPhone.
- ryan_collins 14y agoThe same can be achieved with MacBooks for those of you that don't know. (I'm not sure if there are other laptops that support this.) EDIT: I just noticed this won't work in Safari, but it will work in Chrome.
- stordoff 14y agoNot working in Chrome here (Chrome 22; OS X 10.8.2).
- DungFu 14y agoIf all it takes to get on the HN front page is to post Three.js demos...
- gojomo 14y agoNice effect! In this, the motion and positioning are somewhat arbitrary/random. (Well, later query results pile on top like sediment, but it does not otherwise appear that the acceleration/velocity or start/end positions are indicators of result type, relevance, etc.) My guess is that with the rising ease of animation on the web, motion (and changing scale/rotation/etc) will increasingly be used as a substantive indicator -- not just a transition or flourish. It will give extra hints of the underlying values or data structure. For example, the most relevant search result might wiggle a little... or results that tilt or vibrate in varying directions might subtly hint at ranking according to a secondary scale. Of course this can be overdone to the point of obnoxiousness... but sprinkled in, maintaining a high data-motion ratio (like Tufte's data-ink ratio), such animated text will seem natural to the screen medium.
- vorg 14y ago> the most relevant search result might wiggle a little... or results that tilt or vibrate in varying directions might subtly hint at ranking according to a secondary scale This was somewhat possible via a <blink> tag back in 1996 or so.
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- namanyayg 14y agoThis never ceases to entertain me. I only wish I could do something like that some time.
- chj 14y agoNice work! very entertaining. Now I wish google use it:-)
- maggit 14y agoWhen posting something like this, please explain to me what I should expect and why it is interesting, either here or on your blog or whatever. What happens is namely that I get a page that looks like google.com. Big whoop. And considering that the URL contains the string "chromeexperiments" I didn't immediately realize that I had to open it in Safari instead of Chrome to see the effect. For others in the same pickle: The effect is that the DOM elements fall down, as if there is gravity.
- pm90 14y agoit seems you can even drag and play with the google logo...nice :)
- mekwall 14y agoThis is really old, created in 2009/03/18. You an also use: gravoogle.com or gravigoogle.com to get to this page. He also created the Google Sphere a couple of months later, though that one has never been updated to the new design: http://mrdoob.com/96/google_sphere http://mrdoob.com/96/google_sphere