Mockups Home. Take a second. Let it sink in. The first impression might be disorienting. Interfaces & Technologies. Piccolo2D - A Structured 2D Graphics Framework. User Interface Engineering - Usability Consulting, Training, and Events. Piccolo Home Page. A Structured 2D Graphics Framework Welcome to Piccolo!
A revolutionary way to create robust, full-featured graphical applications in Java and C#, with striking visual effects such as zooming, animation and multiple representations. Piccolo is a toolkit that supports the development of 2D structured graphics programs, in general, and Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs), in particular. The Zooming User Interface. Description A ZUI is a dynamic interface.
It presents the user with a canvas that is larger than the viewing area, and it is on this canvas that items are placed: The placement is arbitrary and may be determined by the users, by the system, or by both. Across this canvas, the user can scroll their viewing window to view different items much like any canvas that is too large for the viewing area.
The ZUI differs from a normal canvas in that the user may zoom in or out onto a particular item if they so wish, much like a telescopic lens on a camera. Though some systems are designed to limit the amount of zooming (Plaisant et al, 1998), the general idea is that a ZUI has an infinite resolution (Bederson and Hollan, 1994). The Dasher Project. Datelens - A Revolutionary Scalable Calendar Interface.