How can we help you out ?
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Images engine : overview
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First enter a search keyword (3.) and click (4.).
Images and words start moving in a 3D space.
Click on any image to start image details mode.
To stop images and words motions, hold the ARROW DOWN key.
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1. | Link : toward the images search engine (default mode) |
2. | Link : toward the ideas diagram |
3. | Search field : enter your search theme. If you want to look for many words, use commas (,) to separate them |
4. | Search button : click to start the research |
5. | Search history : displays the search history panel |
6. | Params button : displays the params panel |
7. | Tag example : has been added by a Flickr user to describe his image. Clicking on the tag starts a new search with this tag as the keyword |
8. | Image example : belongs to a Flickr user. Be careful : you don't have the right to use this image. A click on it starts the image details mode |
9. | Library : appears on rollover. You can add images and words to it from the images details mode. You can then add the library elements to your ideas diagram |
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Images engine : image details mode
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Click on the green icons (2. et 3.) near the tags (1.) that inspire you, to add them to the library.
Roll over the image and click on the green icon that appears if you want to add the image to the library.
To go back to 3D motion mode, click anywhere else once.
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1. | Tag : has been added by a Flickr user to describe his image. A click on it starts a new search using it as a keyword |
2. | Add icon : adds to the library the tag its linked to |
3. | Add icon : appears on image rollover. Click to add the linked image to the library |
4. | Empty : click anywhere to exit image details mode and go back to 3D motion mode |
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The elements in the library are added from the image details mode (clicks on add buttons) or from the ideas diagram mode (adding personal tags).
When there are more than 5 elements, use the arrow buttons (1.) to display hidden elements. Any element, tag (4.) or image (5.), can be deleted by clicking
on the delete button (2.), or can be added to the ideas diagram by clicking on the insert button (3.).
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1. | Arrow button : use to display hidden elements (only 5 saved elements can be displayed simultaneously) |
2. | Delete button : delete the element linked to it |
3. | Insert button : insert the element linked to it to the ideas diagram |
4. | Tag element : contains a tag |
5. | Image element : contains an image |
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This panel lists the previous researches you did. To launch a previous research again, just click on the search button (2.) linked to the keyword you want.
To close this panel without restarting a previous research, just click on the close button (1.).
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1. | Close button : close the panel |
2. | Search button : launches again a previous research, and closes the panel |
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This panel is allows you to choose your preferences. Choose what you prefer (2., 3., 4., 5., 6.) and accept (7.).
To close this panel without any change, click on the close button (1.).
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1. | Close button : closes the panel |
2. | Width : more or less large |
3. | Depth : more or less deep |
4. | Alpha : if enabled, the elements on motion progressively appear |
5. | Elasticity : if enabled, tags "explode" when they appear |
6. | Opacity : if enabled, a black background is applied to the tags |
7. | Accept button apply changes and close the panel |
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Open the library, and insert any element in the idea diagram by pressing the insert button appearing on the roll over of this element.
In the diagram, to move any element, left click on its top bar, and hold the left button while moving the mouse. You can add your own tags (7.) and many light bulb icons (6.).
Create links between elements that seem interresting to be combined. To do this, click on the element, hold the left button down, drag the mouse on top of a light bulb element and release the mouse button.
When a light bulb is linked to at least one element, click on it to do a new research combining all the elements linked to the light bulb. For example, if the word white and a black image are linked together, the results might be
a zebra, a old movie, or a picture of Mickael Jackson from his song "Black and White". If you're a member, you can also export the diagram you created (13.). Use the mouse wheel, the zoom and the hand buttons, to move the scene/diagram.
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1. | Link : toward the images engine (by default) |
2. | Link : toward the ideas diagram |
3. | Zoom in/out buttons : to zoom in and out. You can also use the mouse wheel |
4. | Selection button : if enabled, you can move, delete, or link diagram elements |
5. | Hand button : move the diagram around. Just hold the left button and move the mouse |
6. | Light bulb button : adds a light bulb element into the diagram. You can then link elements to it by drag and drop.
If at least one element is linked to the light bulb, a click on it starts a new search combining all those elements. |
7. | Personal tags insertion : ad the tag on the field and click the blue button. The tag is added to the diagram and to the library |
8. | Library : roll over it to open it. On image details mode, you can add elements to the library. Those elements might be used in the ideas diagram mode |
9. | Image element : contains an image and the infos associated to it. To move it, click and hold the element top bar and move the mouse around.
To delete it, click on the orange delete button. To link an element, click on it, hold the left button down, and drag and drop it on the light bulb element |
10. | Tag element : contains a tag and the infos associated to it. To move it, click and hold the element top bar and move the mouse around.
To delete it, click on the orange delete button. To link an element, click on it, hold the left button down, and drag and drop it on the light bulb element |
11. | Element link : created with a drag and drop from a tag or image element, to a light bulb element. To delete it, click on the orange button on its middle |
12. | Light bulb element :allows a new search combining all the elements linked to it.
To move it, click and hold the element top bar and move the mouse around. To delete it, click on the orange delete button. |
13. | Export button : displays the export panel (only to members) |
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This panel allows you to export your idea diagram to an image and an XML file. To export your brainstorming, first give a title (2.) and a description (3.), then choose the dimensions of the image to generate(4.) and accept(7.).
You can refresh the thumbnail of the image to be generated (5.) by clicking on the refresh button (6.). To close the panel without any image generation, click on the close button (1.).
If you export, the generated elements are accessible only after the panel closes up, in the "My brainstormings" section of the website, visible only for registered users.
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1. | Close button : closes the panel |
2. | Title fiel : to give a title to the brainstoming |
3. | Description field : to give a description to the brainstorming |
4. | Size selection : to choose the prefered size of the generated image (in pixels) |
5. | Thumbnail : gives a first idea of the image about to be generated |
6. | Refresh button : refreshes the thumbnail |
7. | Export button : exports the brainstorming |
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