[Iris-user] Possible feature request

[Daryl Beattie]

Dear Iris devels/users,

        Wow, this plug-in is great. It looks absolutely beautiful, and runs
very fast leaving my CPU more than 95% free. Amazing.
        Anyway, I have two questions:

1) Is it possible to run this plug-in as a desktop background? How would
I do that? I'm running KDE3 on RH9, in case it matters.

2) Is there a way to slow down the rotation of the theme? I like the way
it spins around, but I'd like it to spin a bit slower if possible. I'd
also like to slow down the colour-change too. -- I love that feature
also, but the colors change about every second; that's a bit fast for my
liking.

3) Have you guys seen DreamRender? Its default theme is much like your
squarefield theme. One of its cool features is that the "camera" swings
around and gets different viewpoints of the vis. My guess, and remember
I'm no expert, is that it is implemented the same way your spinning is
implemented, except with two other things:

        1. Where you rotate around the x-axis, it also rotates around the
y-axis -- but not a full rotation, just up and down between 0 and 90
degrees.
        2. It moves the vis closer and farther away a bit.

        My hunch is that with your rotation, the new y-axis oscillation, and a
vis distance oscillation it would probably look exactly the same.
        I don't know how hard that is to do... are you guys planning to do
anything like that? If I'm saying obvious stuff here, sorry about that.
Just some of my thoughts. ;)
        Again, great work to all involved. :)

Sincerely,

        Daryl.