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Twisty Table Views Large Documents Creatively
By Samuel John Klein On 24th October 2006 @ 00:06 In Creative Culture, Features | No Comments
Quite Cool, but we don’t think it’s going to replace the scroll wheel…
While surfing The Map Room we came upon a most delightfully interesting display device. Developed by Onomy Labs, the Tilty Table is a device that can be used to view immensely large diagrams and flat objects, with a truly intriguing difference; it’s by tilting and turning the table that the viewer zooms and pans. As a matter of fact, the most recent development in the Tilty is the so-called “Twisty Table”, which seems particularly suited to satellite map viewing:
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..Like our classic Tilty Table, tilting the table top allows the visitor to scroll around an image. The new twist feature enables the visitor to zoom in to see much more detail, or to zoom out and get a sense of the whole.The very high resolution of the Twisty Table data presents enough details for visitors to find their house, school, or office. When the visitor zooms all the way out, the program displays a selection of different images, for the visitor to explore.
We like the look of it, but we don’t think we have enough room on our desk for one.
For those who are interested in further detail, [1] the Onomy Labs page on Tilty is here.
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[1] the Onomy Labs page on Tilty is here: http://www.onomy.com/blue/tilty.html
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