Finished system.

Combination of browsing and searching is needed. The browsing part is shown here, but in addition to this, you would probably need some sort of tagging, and then a search-agent to use alone or together with the browseable categories. The system could potentially contain thousands of material samples.

The animation below requires QuickTime 7 and it behave as a slideshow; when animation stops - click on it to get to next slide.