Re: [Iris-user] Possible feature request

[Daryl Beattie]

Ooh, just found I can use the arrow-keys to slow the rotation. But for
some reason it speeds up again a few seconds later to the same rate it
was at before. Is there a way to permanently slow it down?

- Daryl.

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 21:06, Daryl Beattie wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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