Comments on: What’s in Leopard for Designers (1): Core Animation http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/ Musings on strategic design by Kontra, a veteran design and management surgeon, perennially in search of complex problems to operate on. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:15:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Runtime wars (1): Does Apple have an answer to Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX? « counternotions http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-335 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:19:37 +0000 http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-335 [...] longer discussion on Core Animation and its significance is in: What’s in Leopard for Designers (1): Core Animation Posted by Kontra Filed in Apple, Design-Strategic, Microsoft, [...]

]]> By: Thibaut http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-279 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:52:11 +0000 http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-279 Thank you. I found more informations here today : http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/8

]]> By: Kontra http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-271 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:16:30 +0000 http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-271 Thibaut:

The neat thing about Core Animation is its simple integration with the NSView hierarchy model, thereby allowing developers to quickly enhance their app’s UI. But I don’t think CA innards is available without Apple’s ADC Memberships. However, there’s a new overview here:

Leopard Developer Graphics & Media Overview
http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/graphicsandmedia.html

]]> By: Thibaut http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-262 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:08:23 +0000 http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-262 As I understand it, CA will come as a Lego box with all these particular pieces of animation to play with and will bring the 3rd dimension a lot further than the drop shadows did. But I wonder to what extent.
It looks like you can play with layers of 2d content to rearrange them in 3d, animate them and interact with them or the subjective camera. Basically what you’re able to do in a compositing software such as After Effects.
I’m curious to know if you can add a thickness to these layers, like a modeling software would do. I tried to find a list of the content of this Lego box but couldn’t. Do you know if it’s available somewhere ?

]]> By: What’s in Leopard for Designers (2): WebKit & Safari « counternotions http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-150 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:24:05 +0000 http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-150 [...] 22nd, 2007 This series exploring future design implications of Leopard technologies started with What’s in Leopard for Designers (1): Core Animation. Today, we’ll look at various strategic directions ushered in by WebKit and Safari [...]

]]> By: Tom B http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-132 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:53:25 +0000 http://counternotions.com/2007/10/18/leopard-for-designers-1/#comment-132 Looks like the “touch” concept will evolve organically on the Mac. In contrast, MS-Surface will be demoed to death and won’t be even slightly useful until version 3.

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