Two-dimensional slider concept

Hey all,

2D slider - popped up in my head recently:

Anybody thinks it would be useful?
David, what do you think?

JJ

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Manuel on September 18, 2009 at 4:36pm

Two sliders will do the job...

I like a new slider with min and max as inputs...

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on September 18, 2009 at 4:59pm

Well, two sliders are sometimes not enough though.

Take the ExtractIsocurve command for instance. What I like about it is that you can hover over the surface with the cursor and get a dynamic preview of the isocurves at the current position.
It would be nice to have this kind of functionality in GH.

I'am aware that "nice" is sometimes not enough though.
:)

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on September 18, 2009 at 5:22pm

As for the min/max input, I'd like that too...
For now I'm using one additional component:

It does the job, but it's useless in the remote panel.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 18, 2009 at 8:19pm

Would it be okay if it outputted a point instead of 2 separate values?

In fact, if we approach this like the Colour picker, it can even be a three-dimensional slider.

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on September 19, 2009 at 2:27am

Even better!
With a point as the output we could plug it directly in the uv inputs of some of the components.

3D slider?

Even cooler!
:)

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on September 19, 2009 at 4:34am

this is fun!

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on September 19, 2009 at 12:35pm

Yes it is fun, thanks!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 19, 2009 at 1:55pm

I knew someone would do this :) Too bad the colour picker only has 255 possible values.

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on November 2, 2009 at 7:40am

wow!!! Super cool!

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on October 2, 2009 at 1:58am

While I agree that 2D and 3D sliders in GH are a great idea...there are ways to do a 2D slider, even all sorts of custom interfaces through other hoops if needed (as we've already seen with the colour picker method):
http://www.livearchitecture.net/archives/4489

Permalink Reply by Thomas Bildsøe on October 2, 2009 at 2:45am

Hi Luis

i get this error when using your link or any other link on your site:

"The requested URL /archives/4389 was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

/Thomas

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on October 2, 2009 at 3:07am

wack! Try again...I might have snooped a bit too much into wordpress...thanks for the heads up!