An interesting comparison: multifaceted iOS 7

As we know, Apple and Disney is not strangers to each other companies, and the software developer Manton Rice had another connection between them. For the study of "multilayer» iOS 7 interface Rhys there was an unexpected associations with the classical technique of creating hand-drawn cartoons.

Ub Iwerks - the famous animator, who worked on the first shorts of Mickey Mouse. Then he gave yourself several hundred drawings a day than was known in the entire studio. In 1930, for some reason he left the Ab "Disney", but 10 years back, and it turned out that this time has not passed in vain for him. One of the inventions that Ayveriks created away from the studio, was the so-called multiplane camera.

The idea was a massive tripod height of more than three meters, on which the camera went up and down the operator. So there was the possibility to divide the total draw an image on multiple levels. For example, the front can be drawn trees, in the second place the characters, the third - at home, in the fourth - the hills with bushes, and the fifth - the sky.

The operator can change the distance between the uneven levels that created a sense of depth images. Synchronously moving each level at different rates, it is obtained beautiful parallax effect. At the same time those levels which do not fall within the focus of the camera, naturally washed out - again the same sense of depth.

And now, 80 years after the invention of Aba "multiplane" embodied in iOS 7. All previous versions of iOS visually built on the same plane with the speakers and textured areas. It's like a topographical map, where instead of landforms are the elements of the program interface. iOS 7 interface, by contrast, consists of several layers of flat major. Each layer is completely flat, but, lying on top of each other, they give the very "Disney's" sense of depth.

It's like a return to the basics of the basics. Simple things can be simple and clear, and if you need clarity - all can become flat. But there is no need to change something in the interface - its basic structure allows you to add subtle motion and depth, not to the detriment of content applications. iOS 7 Control Center blurs subject layer; wallpaper on the home screen, too, seem to lie in the depths, like a window to get only program icons; photos and messages scroll by keyboard navigation and a string - all subject to the same classical principle.

Each level of the interface iOS 7 is drawn as if on a sheet of glass. Remove the shadow under the text, forget the texture - it does not hurt to create the effect. And in the end you have nothing to distract from the main thing - content.

It is noteworthy that Disney multiplane camera - first as Abomey Ayverksom invented the device, and then as a software tool - worked in the field of animation for decades. Not the fact that the new look of iOS 7 will long remain, but the basis of this idea will remain with Apple for many years. I really like the direction they have taken.

— Manton Figure