<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Sean,<div><br></div><div>As I understand it, most of those were used in practice (and look pretty good!) for the original UI (dubbed retrospectively UI1) and didn't completely make it over into Morphic, the current GUI (UI2).</div><div><br></div><div>UI1 is still in the source tree and runs, but only on X11. Are you on Linux or Mac? I can do a quick howto list if you want to play with it.</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Russell</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 4 Feb 2014, at 3:32 am, <a href="mailto:sean@clipperadams.com">sean@clipperadams.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; position: relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia;"><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Most of the Self's animation effects described in "Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface" do not seem to be present in the latest version. e.g.</p><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; line-height: 1.22em;"><div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><div class="page" title="Page 1" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><div class="section" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><div class="layoutArea" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><div class="column" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Use of cartoon-style motion blur allows Self objects to move quickly and still maintain their comprehensibility. Self objects arrive and depart smoothly, without sudden materializations and disappearances, and they rise to the front of overlapping objects smoothly through the use of dissolve. Anticipating motion with a small contrary motion…</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;"> Were these ever used in practice? If so, why were they removed?</span><br style="line-height: 1.22em;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">Thanks,</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">Sean</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 0px;"></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>