Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!astroatc!jojo
From: jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hyper mice
Message-ID: <764@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 17:35:22 GMT
References: <757@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener)
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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In article <757@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> mjw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock) writes:
>Jon Wesener wrote concerning the difficulty of moving a mouse in 3d.
>
>Actually, it's not hard at all.
>
>Vanilla = XZ
>Left button helf = XY
>Right Button held = YZ 
>(only two of these are strictly needed, still got buttons left over (counting 
>the middle one) for another 2 dimensions) ...

But my amiga only has 2 buttons, the left for creating points and the right for
menus and popping out of different modes.  I also don't want to have to pick
up my mouse from the corner of the desk and place it in the center so that
it's resynched with whats on the screen.  3rd, that doesn't seem to have an
intuitive feel to it.  I did see something in a Sci. Amer. issue about a
ring suspended in a volume with taught wires.  pulling the the ring would
cause tension on the various wires and be translated into xyz movement.
Still it didn't have any buttons! ;-)



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