3D File System Navigator available via anonymous FTP
Joel Tesler
sgi.sgi.com (192.26.75.5). It can be found in ~ftp/sgi/fsn. The
following is extracted from the README. Please see the full README in
that directory for more information.
3D File System Navigator
fsn (pronounced fusion) is a file system navigator in cyberspace. It
lays out the directories in a hierarchy with each directory
represented by a pedestal. The height of the pedestal is proportional
to the size of the files in the directory. The directories are
connected by wires, on which it is possible to travel. On top of each
directory are boxes representing individual files. The height of the
box represents the size of the file, while the color represents the
age. It is possible to fly through the file system, examining details
as needed.
Fsn is intended as an investigation in information landscape navigation.
Although the file system was chosen as a system to navigate through,
similar paradigms could be applied to other trees and graphs, such as
call graphs.
Keep in mind that fsn is a prototype and an experiment. It is neither
a full featured product nor a replacement for a filesystem manager
such as Workspace.
Fsn requires Z-buffering and RGB support. You must be running IRIX
release 4.0.1 or greater. It is recommended that you have at least
16MB of memory, especially on an Indigo, where Z buffering uses a lot
of memory. On the Indigo, using split screen mode requires even more
memory. On the Indigo, only the double buffered color map is used, so
the colors are not as pretty as on other machines.
Joel Tesler
jo...@sgi.com
415-335-7498