UI long term development perspective: physics engine

[Gervais Mulongoy]

goes to show that we don't need a physics engine.

On 3/25/07, adrian cockcroft <adrian.cockcroft at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The physics comes in if you give the slider "mass" and intertia. Then
> it accelerates and decelerates depending upon how hard you push it and
> how much friction there is.
>
> The acceleration is driven by the difference in position of the touch
> point and the slider as you move the touch point and the slider lags
> the movement. Move the touch point slowly and the slider follows it,
> flick it fast and the slider will get a bigger kick, accelerate more
> then coast to a halt and have the overshoot that you want.
>
> Adrian
>
> On 3/24/07, Florent THIERY <fthiery at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'll add here sotg from an off-list msg;
> >
> > In fact we have the position given by the touchscreen : [ x(t) ; y(t) ]
> > speed is: [ (x(t') - x(t)) / (t' -t) ; (y(t') - y(t)) / (t' -t) ] -
> > friction_factor*(t' - t)
> >
> > ... Where the friction_factor is in [0 ; 1]
> >
> > If we want acceleration, then we have to integrate the equation once.
> >
> > Shit, i gotta look into my college courses, it's terrible how fast it
> > fades away :-p
> >
> > I'm not sure we really need to take acceleration into account.
> >
> > The changes to bring to the standard gtk scrolling are:
> > - consider the list as scrollable (not just the scroll item)
> > - change the scrolling "stop" behaviour (when the user stops touching
> > the screen) like this: if (last_cursor_speed > 0),
> > continue_scrolling(last_cursor_speed)
> > - when touching the moving list again, stop the scrolling immediately
> > - addition of friction may be a plus, for a more
> > "wheel-of-fortune"-like experience
> >
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