<p>Apple did had a great vision <a href="http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/">buying</a> <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/jukebox/coverflow.html">Coverflow</a> from <a href="http://www.steelskies.com/">SteelSkies</a>. It is impressive and very user-friendly for managing images. Now imagine this for Flickr Images! <a href="http://flickr.1stein.org/flickrflow/FlickrFlow.html">Here you go&#8230;</a> &#8220;Wooow&#8230;&#8221; you say.</p>

<p>Well I had this idea a while ago and I tried to do it with Javascript. I used my favorite JS library <a href="http://prototypejs.org">Prototype</a> and as I don&#8217;t have much free time, I used <a href="http://www.netzgesta.de/reflex/">Reflex.js</a> for the coverflow effect.</p>

<p>I then wrote a simple Python cgi file to fetch the images from you flickr account and a javascript file to go through them. Nothing special. You might want to check out <a href="http://alcidesfonseca.com/coverflow/">the final result</a>.</p>

<p>Well, I believe this can be improvable, maybe making it easy to access other photos than yours (if you know the <span class="caps">API</span> is pretty simple) and add more than 3 photos (reflex.js limitation) so we can experience full effect (this might be a little more complex). I am also using the thumbnails from flickr because I want them to be fixe-size square, but using Python ou <span class="caps">PHP</span>+GD, we could make it work using larger images.</p>

<p>If you feel like working on this, talk to me and feel free to use the <a href="http://alcidesfonseca.com/projects/46">source code</a> for any purpose.</p>