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There is also bumptop from roughly the same time period https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ

⬐ DanBC

Nooface has a collection of weird desktops. It's no longer maintained, so here's the Wayback machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20070226171735/http://nooface.ne...

Anyone remember Bumptop

description from wikipedia

BumpTop was a skeuomorphic desktop environment app that simulates the normal behavior and physical properties of a real-world desk and enhances it with automatic tools to organize its contents. It is aimed at stylus interaction, making it more suitable for tablet computers and handheld PCs. It was created at the University of Toronto as Anand Agarawala's master's thesis. Anand Agarawala also gave a presentation at the TED conference about his idea. The 1.0 version was released on April 8, 2009, along with a fully featured pro version as a paid upgrade.[1] On April 30, 2010 the author announced that BumpTop was being discontinued and that they were taking the software "in an exciting new direction."[2] Two days later, it was announced that the company had been acquired by Google. On January 5, 2011, Google released a sneak preview video of Android 3.0 Honeycomb[3] showing a 3D desktop with features purportedly taken from BumpTop.[4][5]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ

⬐ Carl_Platt

Yeah, awesome stuff - I used some of Anand's ideas in my own research at the time.

there was also this kind of 3d ui,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jhoWsHwU7w

https://bumptop.github.io

https://www.wired.com/2013/02/amazing-3d-desktop/

they certainly used game/physics engine, but they didn't use it for layout.

theres also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ and you can still download it for the next week at http://eol.bumptop.com/download.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ