Thanks Timo, Will look and see. Not certain of the search parameters since the haptic aspect is not required from the the stylus in any way. No matter ... enough to do without chasing the totally invisible or whatever.
Thanks again, Neil Cooke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timo Mikkolainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <user-list@light.realsoft3d.com> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:19 AM Subject: Re: Real Space 3D Drawing > Search for haptic (input) devices, I'm sure there's something like > that out there. > > On 2/4/06, Neil Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Timo, > > > > > Something like this > > > > > http://www.mcadonline.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=173&Ite > > mid=1 > > > ? > > > > > > > I read about this one in a 3DWorld review a while back. Yes, it creates > > surface/tactile feedback from virtual objects, as I understand it, but it > > doesnt seem to be what I am after. While such feedback could be a neat > > trick, it is the creation of virtual data in the first place ... and > > preferrably at variable scales including input at hand-held scales ... like > > walking into a room and touching the corners of the windows, the corners of > > a table, etc, and then colouring them in. Could even be used in survey > > scenarios. But its the art dance that I'm interested in. However, if full > > body realspace tactile interaction with a virtual surface ... wooo, can go > > places with that. > > > > I guess the thing I want might be based on a very local GPS environment > > maybe and when the hand-held stylus button was pressed, a virtual 3D node > > would be recorded. What happened to the node, like, how it related to the > > next node in the array could be pre-selected as a nurbs type curve etc. > > > > Stereo position determination of the position of the stylus depends on > > nothing obscuring the line of sight to the stylus so I think that might not > > be so useful. So some kind of wireless thing. > > > > I don't see it as an animation tool as such since 2D mo-cap interaction > > seems to cover that. > > > > I guess it's all a little too silly, but I thought I'd ask anyway. > > > > Neil Cooke > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Timo Mikkolainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <user-list@light.realsoft3d.com> > > Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 9:38 AM > > Subject: Re: Real Space 3D Drawing > > > > > > > Something like this > > > > > http://www.mcadonline.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=173&Ite > > mid=1 > > > ? > > > > > > On 2/4/06, Neil Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi List, > > > > > > > > Does anyone know of a 3D drawing system that can happen in real space. > > > > > > > > On a plotter you move the pen from A to B and a virtual 2D line happens, > > > > some plotters and mouse type inputs allow pressure to set up a virtual > > line > > > > that lifts up or runs lower than the plotter surface ... what I am > > > > interested in is a pen that simply runs in real space, no plotter. It > > could > > > > trace surface lines of a face for example. > > > > > > > > Neil Cooke > > > > > > > > > > > >
