[racket] Crowdsourcing Pict3D's design

From: Jack Firth (jackhfirth at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 10 21:38:39 EDT 2015

This happens on my OS X machine as well, in precisely the same way.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Robby was afraid that might happen on OS X. The weird thing is that I
> don't have reports of it from any other OS X users.
>
> It looks like we'll need alternative input methods for movement as well.
> (Turns out that WASD aren't necessarily near each other on all keyboards.)
> I'll add this to my input revamp list.
>
> Neil ⊥
>
> On 03/10/2015 07:21 PM, John Clements wrote:
>
>> Neil, I'm having a problem on OS X 10.9 where the mouse isn't behaving
>> as I expect. I may have to make a movie of this, but I'm hoping not. The
>> short version is this: I can't look around. More specifically:
>> - I run the example program (with the circle of radius 1/2).
>> - I click on the image.
>> - I can move the camera with the keys as expected.
>> - Moving the mouse results in quivering,  but nothing more.  After
>> fiddling with it for about five minutes, I've decided that there might
>> be a "center the mouse" call that's being used to keep the (hidden)
>> mouse cursor in the middle of the window, and that on my mac, at least,
>> this centering call is also returning the orientation of the camera to
>> its original location. The result is that I feel like I'm struggling
>> with a malevolent genie; I can make the camera turn just a bit, but no
>> matter how hard I run, I'm pulled back to the same location.
>>
>> Let me know if you want me to make a movie of this.
>>
>> Otherwise: fantastic. Awesome. Fix it so I can show it to all my
>> graphics colleagues.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Konrad Hinsen
>> <konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net <mailto:konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Neil Toronto writes:
>>
>>       > Pict3D is finally ready for public consumption. You can install
>> the
>>       > package either in DrRacket using "File -> Install Package..." or
>>     from
>>       > the command line using
>>       >
>>       >      raco pkg install pict3d
>>
>>     This looks quite impressive - thanks!
>>
>>     Where can I download some spare hours to play with this?  ;-)
>>
>>     Konrad.
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