From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
Subject: Re: TECH: Realistic Hand Model driven by DataGlove
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:36:10 CET



In <9301102221.AA26599@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Jan 10, you wrote:

> From: jpc@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au (John Costella)
> Subject: Re: TECH: Realistic Hand Model driven by DataGlove
> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 10:09:14 EST
> 
> Yeah ... I played with my fingers and it works (makes sense because
> there's only one `string' being pulled).
> 
> Uh oh ... problem is when you actually grab something real: you go
> back to three degrees of freedom. Example: put your hand flat on a
> table with the last joint of each finger hanging off the end. You can
> then wiggle the last joint without wiggle the others to any
> significant extent.

... a friend of mine can wiggle his last joint also without resting
his hand on a plane!! Ah... I really don't like him when he does this
:-(

Diego