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Date/Time:2010-Dec-20 21:32:00
Subject:Re: WWP Flash Player hard stop

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wwp@yahoogroups.com: Re: WWP Flash Player hard stop Erik Krause 2010-Dec-20 21:32:00
Am 20.12.2010 21:57, schrieb Fulvio Senore:

> Yes, but when I turn my eyes the stop is immediate.

Of course not. Your brain (or your eyes) would suffer from infinitely 
high forces :-) Your eyes accelerate if you look somewhere and they 
decelerate at the end of the movement. The difference is that they 
decelerate to the point you wanted to look at, not beyond like the 
panoramas do.

But if you spin a panorama you might find a point of interest. You look 
at it while still spinning, then you release the mouse and the panorama 
stops immediately while your eyes still move on for the fraction of a 
second. That's why a soft stop is more physiological than a hard one.

Spi-V was the first pano player to implement deceleration and when Aldo 
presented it during the Stuttgart panorama meeting all participants 
preferred it compared to a real hard stop like PTViewer did it. The hard 
stop hurts.

However, a agree that a too long deceleration isn't nice. I can live 
with the subtle setting as it is now.

-- 
Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de

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