unwanted camera roll
26-Sep-94 16:40:26
Sb: #125658-unwanted camera roll
Fm: alec jason 71137,2632
To: Loring Robbins 74734,1320
<<. . . as it resists your attempts to curb its own desires>>
Hmm . . . . . I must say that yours is the first message I've received here
which has erotic overtones. Do you also write some of those romance books with
a bare-chested-long-haired-guy-carrying-off-the-young-beauty covers?
I guess to keep in the same spirit of your message:
"In spite of the camera's slow twists and turns, I slowly wrap my hand around
my trackball, feeling its smooth, warm surface as I move it slowly at first,
then faster and faster until I've placed the cursor at what we both know
immediately is the right spot. With my other hand I reach out to the waiting
keyboard as each key beckons me forward. I gently thrust my throbbing finger
down onto the yeilding tab key until it cries out softly and then surrenders to
my will. I look up at the cameraviewport and it looks back at me silently,
sensing my desire and awaiting my command. My fingers are tighter now as they
move with the tracball, first this way and then that way until we become as
one. At last the viewport, in its wild dance to and fro, seems not to loose its
own passion but to accept mine, fully and complete, as it aligns with the
position I have chosen — which is now in harmony with my desire. The camera,
once lost and abandoned is now restrained from motion it did not want nor
choose, waits now, calm, relaxed and fullfilled. "Have no fear," I say softly
as I gaze deeply into the screen, "for Quaternions will not lead you astray
again. I am here."
Anyway, I just keep adding "corrective" roll keyframes until the roll goes
away.
Alec Jason