[racket] Crowdsourcing Pict3D's design

From: Alexander D. Knauth (alexander at knauth.org)
Date: Tue Mar 10 21:39:30 EDT 2015

I get that too.

On Mar 10, 2015, at 9:34 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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