Jan 19, 2010
Cooliris
Cooliris: a new 3d image wall plug-in that allows you gorgeous, high-speed, gesture-sensitive spacial navigation of image search returns. Honestly, it’s kind of blowing my mind, although one could argue it belongs to the already well developed “cover-flow” model or the iPhone “touch and flick” generation.
Why limp through 20 pages of google images (next, next, next), when you can whip down a wall of all your options erstwhile rotating, enlarging and culling metadata?
Below is a screenshot from my search of the NY Public Library Digital Gallery, although perhaps the more meta example would have been my google image search for “Cooliris” which I navigated using Cooliris to find the picture above. My keyword on NYPL was “romance.”
A kind of dorky demo in video form here.