Day 3 - The Time Slider

So...a year is a long time in the technology world. Our current task is taking our Alpha program and re-constructing it in our new web-framework "Organon". This is certainly no small task, as it's been roughly a year since any major development on it...but in a few short days Karl has made some pretty significant progress - in fact our "time-slider" functionality is already working! This is good news for our own time-line.

But what IS the time slider? Well, its pretty neat. The time slider is a customized control mechanism that allows users to move forward and backward through time (selecting a "span" of time, with a start and end date) and ultimately view historical events within those parameters as animation sequences. These animation sequences consist of an aggregation of user generated content: points, polygons, lines, text, 3D models, and more.

Of of the most interesting components of the Time Slider is our embedded 3D modeling viewer. Major historical "objects" (buildings, people, machines, landmarks) are placed inside of the slider to represent visually where the user is at in time.

More to come on this later!

-ben