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This might be an interesting concept to track birthdays: a radar screen. Depending on the days left, someone will get a certain place on the radar.
This example shows my (big) family tree, where members appear when their birthday is less than 50 days ahead. Take a look at:
http://www.infopractica.nl/bab200208_p2_index.html
Enjoy!
ps. You'll find my birthday on leaf 12... [regardless of the days left]
That's a really fascinating concept. Nicely visualised as well, gives it a kind of astrological feel. Who came up with the idea?
Minor quibble is that it took quite a lot of processing power on my machine.
Great stuff!
The idea is based on the movie War Games (1983) where they introduce DEFCON level 1..5 (Defense Condition).
And I was looking for a projection type that is suitable in many areas to show an organization's performance. And the projection type should be able to have people "feel" the activities that are projected.
Both criteria are well matched by a radar-screen.
And I'm still looking for more areas. Feel free to reply!
And I've added some explenation of what you see...
http://www.infopractica.nl/bab200208_p2_index.html
Offside, since it's not made in Flash, I got a lot of questions how it's done. Well...
It's a combination of basic mathematics, CSS, JavaScript, DOM2, XML and PHP.
An XML file is read containing the birthday data. For each member that adheres to the conditions (birthday less than 50 days ahead), a dynamic DIV is projected on the radar screen. And the radar screen itself is also made of dynamic projected DIVs.
The XML file is created by a PHP-script that reads the birthday-sheet (comma-seperated ASCII file).
If you look in your temporary internet files directory, you'll find all the stuff there is (besides the PHP-script ofcourse).
Take a minute for another scenario and you'll see yourself appear on the radar screen:
http://www.bam.nu/bab200208_p2_index.html
Enjoy!