I plan for one of the features to be updatable / customisable themes that help appeal to a more wider audience. It is important to still retain visibility and userbility while still standing out.  

One such style that would appeal to a younger / nostalgic audience is 8bit. A backlash style that has become retro and usually affiliated with arcade games and youths

EON TouchLight: Interact with 3D objects

To break down the touchlight in an informative way, eonreality give a first hands demonstration. The gestures shown are slow and co-ordiated to keep user attention. Line animation analysis’s its structural aspects, removing all irrelevant visual noise. 

Visual keys have mostly been replaced by verbal script. 

After presenting my dummy video It was apparent I need to make the different sections more clear to the user. Subtle suggestion might not work when trying to create a dfinitive border. To counter I will try a series of backdrops using colour to mask out the different areas of interest. 
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After presenting my dummy video It was apparent I need to make the different sections more clear to the user. Subtle suggestion might not work when trying to create a dfinitive border. To counter I will try a series of backdrops using colour to mask out the different areas of interest. 

Create Stunning Generative Art with ease Highly Integrated into After Effects, native Camera and Light aware. Breakthrough Modular Workflow, that is infinitely configurable. Create Organic Structures using Powerful Replication Tools. Effectors to create Physical Simulations. You can import OBJ Files and OBJ Sequences into Plexus. Use AE Lights to shade the Plexus and Color Maps to color the particles. High Quality Custom Rendering Engine.

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

Researching new technologies that make exploring data feel natural and intuitive.

Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click.

One of the the key words I think that is helping me design is “Intuitive”. To be able to communicate a series of task, objectives, uses and more by doing practically nothing. But providing an environment where people will be able to interact in a way that feels natural and instinctive to them. The application / interactive data visual needs to be immersive and responsive from the go.

DataTank is designed for scientific visualization, data mining and algorithm development, but it is flexible enough to be used for a variety of other uses as well. Graphics DataTank uses OpenGL and Quartz to draw 3D graphics, and supports transparency, interactive rotation, multiple light sources and camera positions. DataTank uses the strength of Quartz to generate publication quality vector-graphics as PDF/EPS or anti-aliased bitmaps for use in web pages and presentations. As a native mac citizen you can copy pdf directly from DataTank into KeyNote, Mail etc. You can also combine OpenGL graphics and Quartz into a single figure. DataTank creates QTVR graphics objects from a 3D view and saves QuickTime movies with a single click. Data Mining DataTank enables interactive exploration of large data sets. Variables and relationships are defined graphically and built in modules can be combined with your own modules. DataTank will manage memory and perform incremental evaluation, treating data sets with millions of data points and hundreds of thousands of entries the same way as a simple data set that is typed in manually. To make this possible DataTank uses caching extensively, both in memory and on disk. Programming DataTank can be used as a graphical debugger and tool for developing algorithms. For regression testing you can set up the problem in DataTank, view the input, launch your program and view the output. If you run the program in a debugger the input and old output can be explored in DataTank down to the level ofindividual values. For C++ DataTank includes a source library, called DTSource, that supports the built in variable types as well as being a foundation for numerical programs. DataTank will generate all of the I/O so writing a plug-in module is a snap. Once debugging is done, DataTank becomes a graphical user interface for the computional routine. DataTank can be used to tie together routines by acting as the numerical backbone where data is transferred through standard data types. The DTSource library is written in portable C++ and released with the BSD license. Source: http://www.visualdatatools.com/DataTank.html
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DataTank is designed for scientific visualization, data mining and algorithm development, but it is flexible enough to be used for a variety of other uses as well.

Graphics

DataTank uses OpenGL and Quartz to draw 3D graphics, and supports transparency, interactive rotation, multiple light sources and camera positions. DataTank uses the strength of Quartz to generate publication quality vector-graphics as PDF/EPS or anti-aliased bitmaps for use in web pages and presentations. As a native mac citizen you can copy pdf directly from DataTank into KeyNote, Mail etc. You can also combine OpenGL graphics and Quartz into a single figure. DataTank creates QTVR graphics objects from a 3D view and saves QuickTime movies with a single click.

Data Mining

DataTank enables interactive exploration of large data sets. Variables and relationships are defined graphically and built in modules can be combined with your own modules. DataTank will manage memory and perform incremental evaluation, treating data sets with millions of data points and hundreds of thousands of entries the same way as a simple data set that is typed in manually. To make this possible DataTank uses caching extensively, both in memory and on disk.

Programming

DataTank can be used as a graphical debugger and tool for developing algorithms. For regression testing you can set up the problem in DataTank, view the input, launch your program and view the output. If you run the program in a debugger the input and old output can be explored in DataTank down to the level ofindividual values. For C++ DataTank includes a source library, called DTSource, that supports the built in variable types as well as being a foundation for numerical programs. DataTank will generate all of the I/O so writing a plug-in module is a snap. Once debugging is done, DataTank becomes a graphical user interface for the computional routine. DataTank can be used to tie together routines by acting as the numerical backbone where data is transferred through standard data types. The DTSource library is written in portable C++ and released with the BSD license.

Source: http://www.visualdatatools.com/DataTank.html