Mac OS X 3D File Browser

Posted by pudge on Saturday March 9, 2002 @01:54AM from the shades-of-project-x dept.

A user writes "A development team at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana has released a 3-dimensional file browser called 3DOSX as a test of the feasibility of the technology. This program uses OpenGL to render a file system as a series of floating 'platters' interconnected by semi-translucent beams of light." I tried this on my old PowerBook G3/400, first from the source and then from the disk image, and then realized I don't have the required OpenGL-accelerated video card. Doofus am I! Be not like me! (However, it does work, albeit very slowly, on a new iBook/600). J adds: Nice and fast on an old G4/500 with a Radeon.

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my first /. "big flash ad" experience... by deander2 · 2002-03-11 02:39 · Score: 1, Offtopic

It was for IBM, and placed directly after the story text before the comments section. Not too intrusive, since that tends to be dead space anyway (unless the article is long).

It's disappointing though. /. usually has ads I find USEFUL, but this was the plain vanilla IBM (e)-business ad you find on news.com.

Oh well, I'll live. :-)

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