I've used my Kinect for 1 year now, and one thing I like is the Kinect dashboard that is reacting in 3D with my hand; you know the tiles...
So I tried; and succeeded!; to mimic the same 3d effect on html elements with some CSS3 and jQuery, and I made a jQuery plugin so it’s much more easier for you to add this effect on your website.
Because this plugin is awesome, it work only on webkit browsers (Google Chrome & Safari) because of the CSS3's rotate3d function.
First step
To use this little plugin, first of all you just need to add jquery and the tile plugin to your html page:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Tile</title> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="js/jquery.tile.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> </body> </html>
Second step
Now we can call the plugin on an element in the page. So in the body we add a div with some style:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Tile</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.tile.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style>
body {
background-color: #838383;
}
#tile {
background-color: #45a8d3;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #444;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="tile"></div>
</body>
</html>
And in the head we call the plugin:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$("#tile").tile();
});
</script>
And BAMM! you get something like that:
Configuration
You can even personalize some settings like the perspective, the degree and the inversion by doing this:
$("#tile").tile({
perspective: 400,
degree: 10,
inverse: true
});
Source
You can find source files on gitHub here
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Slider2nl
April 11, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Is there also a way to make it selectable and that it wil redirect you to the link (in a few seconds) on mouseover. But when you mouseout it stops before redirect? (like the kinect handcursor does)