2010-05-04, 18:55
Hey All!
So I've had the "^3" or cubed music player installed on my phone for a little while, and since I don't listen to a whole lot of music on my phone it didn't get a lot of use, but I always really liked it's main visualization, it's basically a cube that you spin and on each of it's faces it has an album's art (horizontal spin moved through the alphabet and vertical within a letter). The thing I particularly like about the interface is how speedy and responsive it is.
Anyway the developer Filipe Lameiro Abrantes recently added a new visualization called "Morph Flow" that as soon as I saw it I just thought how amazing it would be for flipping through movie posters on the XBMC Remote. Now I haven't really delved all that much into it, but Cubed is open source and after looking at the source it's quite straight forward, and very compatible with the XBMC Remote.
Anyway I'm not sure of the licensing of the Cubed source (it's not clear from the source headers or the github repository) but I was thinking of getting in touch with Filipe just to see if it would be ok with him for me to try to spin off his work on Cubed into this project. Before I went to that trouble though I thought I'd check in here and see what people thought.
Here are some screen shots of the interface in action, though to get a really good feel for it it'd be best to download it:
Link:
Mesh In Action:
Mesh Drag:
Anyway curious what everyone's thoughts are! And as always love the remote!
Cheers,
Alden
Edit - Wrong name for the new Cubed visualization!
So I've had the "^3" or cubed music player installed on my phone for a little while, and since I don't listen to a whole lot of music on my phone it didn't get a lot of use, but I always really liked it's main visualization, it's basically a cube that you spin and on each of it's faces it has an album's art (horizontal spin moved through the alphabet and vertical within a letter). The thing I particularly like about the interface is how speedy and responsive it is.
Anyway the developer Filipe Lameiro Abrantes recently added a new visualization called "Morph Flow" that as soon as I saw it I just thought how amazing it would be for flipping through movie posters on the XBMC Remote. Now I haven't really delved all that much into it, but Cubed is open source and after looking at the source it's quite straight forward, and very compatible with the XBMC Remote.
Anyway I'm not sure of the licensing of the Cubed source (it's not clear from the source headers or the github repository) but I was thinking of getting in touch with Filipe just to see if it would be ok with him for me to try to spin off his work on Cubed into this project. Before I went to that trouble though I thought I'd check in here and see what people thought.
Here are some screen shots of the interface in action, though to get a really good feel for it it'd be best to download it:
Link:
Mesh In Action:
Mesh Drag:
Anyway curious what everyone's thoughts are! And as always love the remote!
Cheers,
Alden
Edit - Wrong name for the new Cubed visualization!