A proposed specification for creating/rendering interfaces.
This is simply a proposed specification and is by no means complete.
It's possible that in the future we may have displays that do not use pixels. In addition interfaces are becoming more complex and therefore need to be more modular so that they remain easy to create whilst still allowing customisation. This specification aims to provide the minimal requirements to represent a 3D interface.
A interface element represented using JSON.
{
// The points are used to determine the space that the element occupies.
// All child elements are contained within this space.
points: [
{
"x": 0,
"y": 0,
"z": 0
}
],
// The center point is a reference for the position of the points.
center: {
"x": 0,
"y": 0,
"z": 0
},
// The colour of the element.
color: {
"red": 0,
"blue": 0,
"green": 0,
"opacity": 0
},
// Child elements.
children: []
}The parent of the element cannot be known in order to maintain modularity.
It may be better for displays to render from this representation of an interface instead of a binary representation of the interface that is rendered by the client's machine because it could better seperate concerns.