From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Thu Apr 1 14:42:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id OAA03933 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:42:07 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:07:30 -0500 (EST) From: Nicholas Bodley To: Nichael Cramer Cc: Norman Richards , "Cube Lovers (E-mail)" Subject: Spaceball (tm) input to a Cube simulator In-Reply-To: <199904010224.VAA00984@mc.lcs.mit.edu> Message-Id: If anyone has a Spaceball, it should make quite a nice input device. It senses both torque about all 3 orthog. axes, and linear displacement forces ditto; a total of 6 channels. Displacement could select a layer, which could be highlighted (anyone for alpha-channel translucency?), and torque would rotate the selected layer. |* Nicholas Bodley *|* |* Waltham, Mass. *|* |* nbodley@tiac.net *|* |* Amateur musician *|*