https://scifiinterfaces.com is an awesome website that encyclopedically catalogues, reviews and analyzes the technical user interfaces seen in science fiction movies. What’s the UI, how effective is the UI, how plausible is it? This includes “Hollywood computer interfaces”, but also includes things like the magic gestures and artifacts seen in Doctor Strange.
I’ve always loved JT Nimoy’s writeup on his VFX work in Tron: Legacy, where he insisted on showing real Unix process tools and emacs’ windows control.
(Someone even worked up an interactive version of what appears in the movie!)
I can’t find it atm, but I remember watching a long-ish video on YT, with someone building a block device out of redstone, which was then exposed to the OS, could be formatted and mounted. Of course, it was even more prone to corruption than Seagate’s ST3000DM001.
https://scifiinterfaces.com is an awesome website that encyclopedically catalogues, reviews and analyzes the technical user interfaces seen in science fiction movies. What’s the UI, how effective is the UI, how plausible is it? This includes “Hollywood computer interfaces”, but also includes things like the magic gestures and artifacts seen in Doctor Strange.
I always loved the way hollywood visualised stuff. I’d love a 3 dimensional file browser like in the movie “hackers”.
Dunno if Hackers used the same one, but the file browser in Jurassic Park used by Lex when she exclaims, “It’s a unix system, I know this!” is fsn, the OpenGL file system navigator that shipped with Irix.
I have a special love for the dead end that was 3D interfaces everywhere.
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I’ve always loved JT Nimoy’s writeup on his VFX work in Tron: Legacy, where he insisted on showing real Unix process tools and emacs’ windows control. (Someone even worked up an interactive version of what appears in the movie!)
I can’t find it atm, but I remember watching a long-ish video on YT, with someone building a block device out of redstone, which was then exposed to the OS, could be formatted and mounted. Of course, it was even more prone to corruption than Seagate’s ST3000DM001.
Damn creepers blew up my hard drive!