Topic: Developing the Ozone "lost" pages, need feedback (Page 2 of 2)

Yah, I've come up with a rationalization for why the landscape moves that way, here it is. Suppose you could flap your arms and fly. Not too high, maybe just a slow hover. Plus, one arm is stronger than the other, so you tend to spin just a bit. You're also not just spinning in place, but spinning around in a small, slow circle. THEN the landscape, it might move just like that, with the closest things moving slowly, and the farther things faster.

Plus, it looks cool.

The green, it really isn't that bad, but the buttons should be more of the same color as the window, and right now they aren't even close! I've got PSD templates and scripts for hacking things up quickly, I expect I'll have new images in place later tonight.

Your pal, -doc-

I don't kow why, but using IE6 I get horrible flashing in the overlapping layers of the landscape, with a refresh rate of about 2 FPS. Window size doesn't matter.

ROFL... Doc, I like that explination! Very slick!

I'm not sure if this is what you were trying to say, Doc, but the only explanation that makes is if you were describing a wide circle and looking inward toward the center of the circle. Is that what you were saying?

Anyway, it doesn't matter. I like it because it's mildly unsettling when you first see it--you know something is wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on it. It creates a sort of barely palpable logical tension. And I think that's nifty.

Simple expanation, if you were to stand in one place and spin, the background would move faster than the foreground. (Not really, but it's closer to what you see than anything else!) I also liked it just because it triggers some switch in the brain that shouts "WRONG WRONG WRONG" and you don't know why at first! I like playing games with peoples brains.

Your pal, -doc-

I wasn't saying it was bad, just unsettling. I think that is a good thing.

DigitalUbiquity

That was the intent, it's supposed to be unsettling.

Your pal, -doc-

I like the orange overall, but I would prefer to see some more realistic coloration on the landscape. Or, if that seems to out of character for the page, perhaps simply a bit more contrast - it just looks a little washed out as is...

BTW, I don't see any green from here, if that helps any.

Edit: Double post


[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 05-09-2002).]

"it triggers some switch in the brain that shouts "WRONG WRONG WRONG"

Actualy I always thought of the standing still and turning thing when I first saw it. Maybe I just play way too may 3D First Person games...

Think of your vision as an arc. Say you were standing in front of a flat plane with a grid on it. You may see 4 squares of the grid right in front of you but about 100 squares off in the distance. If you turn, you'll see 1 new squage in front of you to ever 25 or so new squares in the distance.

Really lovin the page Doc! Although I'm seeing the green in the orange one too. Kinda makes it a bit muddy IMO. There's green in the "Lost in the Ozone" logo too.

Hmm... that's true. I don't know what I was thinking. Man, that page really confused me.

Wow! This is nice!!! I can?t say much more.

In conjunction with the ?wrong wrong wrong? in the animation the new Ozone page remind me about environment, pollution and health problems; I think Sweden it is a top country on research for health and pollution; what's more, this could also reflect a Political issue (even if sporadically that?s a target for old political powers).

Heh. I think the "wrong wrong wrong" was about my rather pathetic attempt at explaining the background movement.

doc, i dont know if it has already been said, but what about a smoother changing of direction.
i mean slowing down the animation first, then changiong direction and accelerating speed.

i was a visitor for 30 seconds! whoo hoo..

oh anyways just looks like a sketch .. but we know the quality of Ozones work so we really dont focus on that ....... but he did mention something about it being a view as if we are spinning....

my only thought is a more circular approach wider at the edges a tapering a lil lil bit in the middle? or flaring out more????.......??? would feel like more of a round effect???????

dont get me wrong its great but by his explination i dont get a feeling of spinning... maby if waved more ??




[This message has been edited by mel (edited 05-12-2002).]

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

yay, ini is right. the status bar is absolutely unnecessary.

btw, the font in the dhtml-window is lookin very ugly for me. (could be my tft).

WOW, I didn't know that the Lost in the Ozone 404 page was so recent and so discussed.
Two days ago, I was writing a regular 404 page for my site, due to a lot of address changing that took place, and then, I thought to myself: what a site as Ozone's would have as a 404 Not Found page? That guy must have something different there. Then I typed some weird address at www.ozones.com, just to see what would come up and, surprise, a beautiful and ingenious page showed up. I thought again: it had to be!
Well, Doc, if you are reading this and if you remember my emails I sent you, forget them!! I didn't know you plan to make that page a front page. For me, it was "just" a 404 Not Found page that people were not aware of its existence, after all, who in the world, besides Doc, is worried about a 404 page?

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

Amen.

Doc, its excellent - although it gives me motion sickness, really.. then again yesterdays BLT probably wasnt a good idea.

FatRod

I definitly love the orange one, I would type in bad urls all day long just to see it

I really like it.. the mountains are great animation but as I was dragging the mouse around I had a "vision" of a lava lamp type flow.. semitranparent in the layers..blending several shades together to create shadings or pools of complimentary shades.. What a toy that would be.. as I have not studied up on exactly how the moutain mousemotion animation was created I don't know what is possible..are 4 directions of liquid flow/overlap possible? Ha I have been being lazy, not doing web pages lately but now Doc has started to inspire me again.. Great Page Doc.. just intrigues me no end!!

Ok, two things I noticed...no link to HandsOn...should be something very easy to find (IMHO) and under 'home' the graphic of the 'mad scientist?' has a prob...the graphic is 'split' where the head is...needs to be fixed...

Other than that, I really like the colors...and the nav is top-notch...

Love it,,

hehehe it loves my cpu too

50% on p4 1.6 ghz with 512 mb ram

ie6 on win 2k

also the rollovers seems a bit slow to respond

that said i dont care ya can eat some more of my cpu..

first time i ever bookmarked a 404 page