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Technology Stocks : 3DFX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank Sheridan who wrote (5680)	7/22/1998 6:12:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16960

Thanks for the info on VooDoo Lights. It got me thinking, perhaps the best 3D accessory is not a screen saver, rather an active 3D background and perhaps a fancy application launcher to go with it (I am trying to limit my imagination here to things that are relatively easy to implement). The active background could be a wall with several windows ;) {I mean real windows) on it. You open a window and it will give you a glance into another world say a garden with butterflies and birds (for mom) or a choice fishing spot in the mountains with all its associated wild life (for dad) or even a bunch of cartoon characters goofing around (for the kids). It would be active only when you run your applications in windows (as oppose to full screen) and would make sure that it would release the cpu if there is a high load on it. Your regular Windows background (from plus or whatever) would be pulled aside like a curtain and hang on the edges. You can make the active background dormant by pulling the curtains, thereby restoring the original windows background. The application launcher would replace the task bar and the start menu (ok it would exist in conjunction with them but make them useless). It would be floatable (so you could put it anywhere), read the same formats as the task-bar and the start menu do, but look prettier and give you the ability to completely reorgonize it. For example it could turn the "Documents" section of the start menu into a book case library with each book representing a document. It could have a desktop (litteraly) that would have various items instead of the icons that you'd have on your windows desktop (say a model airplane for a flight simulator and if you assigned more than one such a game to it the plane would start flying and ask for mission destination), a model car for all the driving type games, an ink and feather for the word processors, an abacus for the spread sheets or anything else that does math and so on. Clicking on any of these items would animate them do something. Now this would be a real Plus package. One that I would not mind buying, but of course I'd have to have a Voodoo based card to handle all that. Any volunteer programmers? I'm willing to cooperate on this project myself and it does not seem terribly complicated to me at the first glance or am I way over my head? Sun Tzu