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diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco) writes:

>The problem I found is the THUMB: since the DataGlove can't detect all
>movements of the first joint of the thumb (i.e. the one which links
>the finger and the hand), without additional sensors, I was wondering
>around WHICH axis the thumb should twist about: it surely isn't one of
>the coordinate ones (X,Y,Z), and I've come out with a strange one,
>empirically (sp?) found with trial and error. But it still doesn't
>satisfy me. Infact if I make an OK posture, touching thumb and index,
>the on-screen hand doesn't do the same, having always some
>mis-alignment (sp?) between the two fingers. It surely depends on the
>fact that I LOCKED the thumb movement on the WRONG plane.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the thumb does not move on just one
plane.  It has a range of 3-Space that it can wander around in, just
like the fingers.  Granted, it's not a very big space, but it
certainly is not a plane.

- Peter

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