From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mon Apr 5 21:30:54 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 VAA18890 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:30:53 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Message-Id: <3707EE0F.73ED160F@ibm.net> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 15:56:15 -0700 From: "Jin 'Time Traveler' Kim" Reply-To: chrono@ibm.net To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Spaceball (tm) input to a Cube simulator References: If anybody wants a SpaceOrb 360 (for experimentation please, I generally don't just give away stuff out of the kindness of my heart, although that's not unknown either) just drop me an email with a mailing address. I still have the box around here somewhere, just don't remember where. If I dig around long enough I know I can find the instructions too. I don't have it in front of me, but I'm sure it's just a serial device like a mouse. Nicholas Bodley wrote: > > 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. -- Jin "Time Traveler" Kim chrono@ibm.net http://www.chrono.org '95 PGT - SCPOC