Back in 2002, we've found a very nice software program called MADOTATE. It is a tool to make windows three-dimensional and to realize a futuristic three-dimensional desktop.

You can find more information about MADOTATE here (including downloads and source code): http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~seahorse/

We quickly realized that the program needs some refactoring to work on new versions of Windows and, despite the fact that is open source, all comments in the source code were written in Japanese language.

We've contacted the author, and with his accept, based on MADOTATE, we built T3Desk.