Mouse Interactive 3D Rotations, Sun cube - Cube stickers inspired by Sun 3D Logo from the Lively Kernel page: http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/index.xhtml 624 vertices. Made with only SVG and JavaScript. Dragging the mouse to any direction make the object follow with a rotation to the exact direction outlined by the mouse movement and at constant rotation rate... [more...]

Mouse Interactive 3D Rotations, Sun cube - Cube stickers inspired by Sun 3D Logo from the Lively Kernel page:

http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/index.xhtml

624 vertices.

Made with only SVG and JavaScript.

Dragging the mouse to any direction make the object follow with a

rotation to the exact direction outlined by the mouse movement and at

constant rotation rate (mousemove/degreesRotated) to any direction.

User should get the same reaction no matter where the mousedown

took place on the scene and no matter what were the mouse movements

prior to current move.

Thus, user has the ability to bring any part of the object to any desirable

position and/or to any desirable orientation (providing of course, it can be

there theoretically).

True for this time (Sep. 2009), I could not find on the Net any mouse

interactive rotation to provide all the above requests natively (no plugin).

Even among those which are based on plugins or get GPU support,

other than Java applets I could not find a single demo to comply with the

above rules .

All Opera and FireFox interactive rotations demos (including Canvas

3D of both) are axis locked. Google O3D rotations are either axis locked

(borrowed from sketchUp) or produce asymmetric rotations (different

rates for vertical and horizontal dragging) if the scene is not square. [less...]