{"id":3821,"date":"2013-11-23T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2014-04-29T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:26:18","slug":"radial-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/radial-menus","title":{"rendered":"Radial Menus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Play games much? What’s your favorite way to choose your destination, toggle options, select items or swap weapons?<\/p>\n

I prefer radial menus as the best way to turn “lists” of options into “branches” of option. Some say “touch means a Renaissance<\/a>” for the radial menu and I agree! Unfortunately this leaves mouse users with the typical lists… which only get smaller and smaller with each increase in resolution. GAH!<\/p>\n

I created a post on odforce.net about radial menus<\/a> and how I’d love to see something like this in Houdini. Maya has something very similar that they call “Marking Menus”, which are great…\u00a0 especially since they can be customized.<\/p>\n

I’m a big fan of gesture based control as it helps eliminate mouse strain AND helps the digital artist stay more focused on the task at hand. I find lists to be very distracting, and I end up devoting too much energy into “searching<\/strong>” instead of “activating<\/strong>“. Radial menus create option gestures!<\/p>\n

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Speaking of gestures and radial menus, I just came across this update for the Leap Motion<\/a>, where the artist is molding clay without getting his hands dirty. So much fun, though I’d have the weakest wrist of all clay sculptors. I can only imagine that UIs that are in development. Hopefully the big corps don’t pattent the ideas before they become widely available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Play games much? What’s your favorite way to choose your destination, toggle options, select items or swap weapons? I prefer radial menus as the best way to turn “lists” of options into “branches” of option. Some say “touch means a Renaissance” for the radial menu and I agree! Unfortunately this leaves mouse users with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[703,595,648,69,84,649,142,146,690],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-control","tag-efficiency","tag-guesture","tag-houdini","tag-maya","tag-motion-capture","tag-ui","tag-video-games","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}