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I saw a very similar idea a while back here, and bookmarked it.

http://playground.mobily.pl/jquery/mobily-blocks/demo.html

It's a short breath away from what Path have done.

I love the aesthetics of both, I have to say. Great work.

The concept itself isn't very far removed from pie menus[1]; which have been around for quite some time. They're much more common in console games these days (the layout maps very well to an analog stick or face buttons); SketchBook (on both the desktop and phones/tablets) is another recent example that comes to mind.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu

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