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This is one of my many adventures into Natural UIs, this particular one is an experiment with ZUIs.

GooPad is a hack I wrote in 2007 on top of VoodooPad to experiment with Zoomable User Interfaces, or ZUIs.

You can pan the canvas, but also zoom in and out, to get an overview or dive into an article. You can also resize individual wiki entries, and that way make spatial hierarchies or groups of entries; even nesting entries inside entries, like in Seadragon or Raskin’s initial ZUI concepts.

I really wish I had a multi touch pad back then, navigating without one was very clumsy.

It’s a standard Cocoa app reading .vpdoc bundles and visualizing them with Core Animation. Mail me if you’re interested in the project or its sources.