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3D Rotation User Interfaces

Goal:
Want to specify angle-axis rotation ``directly''.
Problem:
May only have mouse, which only has two degrees of freedom.
Solutions:
Virtual Sphere, Arcball. \



CS488/688: Introduction to Interactive Computer Graphics
University of Waterloo
Computer Graphics Lab

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