• Robin@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    You could totally replicate that winamp interface with vector graphics. You’d only have to maintain the same aspect ratio

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      11 hours ago

      Are you saying we should build a 3D rendering engine into the start up file of every application that does nothing but change a few variables??? We could now but why would we? And back then not a chance.

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        Modern operating systems have hardware accelerated graphics for the GUI. This is nothing new. Apple started doing this with Mac OS X more than 20 years ago. Drop shadows and animations for windows and everything. Windows Vista was when Microsoft started doing it.

        The rendering engines are already there and loaded.

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        11 hours ago

        Vector graphics are 2d and used in websites all the time. ~NO WAIT don’t make an electron… too late…

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          This is not Vector it has shading and translucent glass and glare it was made on a primitive 3D engine thinking you could do this with vector is exactly why you don’t have UI like this anymore, you cannot.