While a piece of hardware designed for mixing music is perhaps not the ideal tool, spinning a dial feels like a pretty effective way of selecting lines (or "edges" in graph lingo) and beats trying to hover over lines with a mouse. I would expect future keyboards to come equipped with fancy dials and sliders that can send MIDI messages for use in web browsers in all sorts of inventive ways.
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Hands-on : navigating graphs with midi control surfaces
Using a mouse to get around a graph like HiveMindMap can be a bit fiddly. The music industry is way ahead of us in using hands-on hardware to control things and here I (ab)use a midi music controller with dials and sliders to zip around the map. I'm using a new feature in HTML5 which allows the browser to respond to MIDI messages coming from the hardware.
While a piece of hardware designed for mixing music is perhaps not the ideal tool, spinning a dial feels like a pretty effective way of selecting lines (or "edges" in graph lingo) and beats trying to hover over lines with a mouse. I would expect future keyboards to come equipped with fancy dials and sliders that can send MIDI messages for use in web browsers in all sorts of inventive ways.
While a piece of hardware designed for mixing music is perhaps not the ideal tool, spinning a dial feels like a pretty effective way of selecting lines (or "edges" in graph lingo) and beats trying to hover over lines with a mouse. I would expect future keyboards to come equipped with fancy dials and sliders that can send MIDI messages for use in web browsers in all sorts of inventive ways.
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