something annoying about leopard's dock perspective:

[LoganT]

I think I may be the only one who likes the look of the dock.

 

[VoodooDaddy]

If you folks are bothered by a divider line not in some perfect alignment, dont ever have kids because you will likely have to be put in an institution.

 

[jackc]

If you folks are bothered by a divider line not in some perfect alignment, dont ever have kids because you will likely have to be put in an institution.

If your kid is not proportioned correctly in 3D, then I agree that would be annoying.

 

[me_94501]

i see a lot of complaints about the shadows, reflection, and height of the new dock, but has anyone noticed the bad perspective of that little crosswalk divider? does that only irritate people that understand perspective? doesn't it look off to the rest of you?

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as the dock gets wider, the divider would need to lean more so it still points to the center. remember the graphics in Street Fighter II? all the floors moved in perspective, which i thought was amazing at the time. i know leopard can handle this type of thing.

also, i don't know what is up with that coca cola style wave on the dock, but it doesnt defy perspective, so i can leave it alone. i was thinking apple was going to fix the divider before the release, but since nobody notices, maybe they are not worried.

If you really really want to get nit-picky about the Dock's perspective:
http://furbo.org/2007/07/03/the-hig-still-matters-even-with-special-effects/

 

[jehrler]

I just want to point out that everyone is assuming the dock is intended to be rectangular in this 3D space (i.e. the two ends of the dock are parallel) and hence the OP's placement of the vanishing line and horizon.

There is no reason that this has to be the case. It could be that the Dock is trapezoidal.

Anyway, I really like the quickly vanishing divider. It gives the Dock a Dali/Surrealistic feel with the big icons and the implied rapidly retreating space.

I mean, this isn't meant as a photorealistic picture and a little artistic license to push the symbolism is perfectly understandable. I mean, the divider is, after all, a divider and the ones we all see every day are on the road. It is much less clear in the OP's version that this divider is meant to evoke road lines because of the less aggressive perspective. Heck, they look more like stairs to me.

 

[wackymacky]

I don't see it...lookin' good to me, but I'll be using the dock on the left anyway...

I'll have to learn to use the dock on the side rathe than live with the abomination of a thing on the bottom