Re: The State Of The Art

["Dr Geek" <dr_geek hotmail com>]

Nathan Sidoli <sidoli@csli.Stanford.EDU> did a nice topological analysis of 
the problems of a sphere...
>Near the poles of our sphere all our
>windows will distort into bent trapezoids with the greater base in the
>direction of the more distant pole.
>A cylinder is topologically equivalent to a rectangle - all that would be
>needed for the full effect would be to allow the mouse to slide into the
>leftmost vdt by moving rt in the rightmost.
Yep; and a nice idea is to wrap the top and bottom edges of the cylinder 
around so that there's a closed loop in the vertical as well as the 
horizontal direction.
dr g


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