Infocube

Infocube

Front

Infocube, 1999–2004

Information on the faces of a solid you rotate.
Infocube.net Ltd, Rickmansworth.
Aimed at 3G handsets, PDAs and set-top boxes.

Drag the cube

yaw 024° pitch −16° facing Front

Try this

Drag and let go — it carries on turning, then settles square to a face.
Click a hotspot while the cube sits at an angle. It still hits.
Drag hard and click mid-spin — a drag never fires a hotspot.
Follow the hotspot on the front face down into a nested cube.
Keyboard only: Tab to the cube, then ← ↑ ↓ → — the keys push the cube the way a drag would, so → brings the left-hand face round.

Under the hood

Two numbers hold the whole state: yaw and pitch, in degrees.
Pointer movement adds to them directly — no gesture recogniser, no modes.
Release keeps the last velocity and decays it by 6% a frame.
The face you are looking at is found by rotating each face's normal and taking whichever ends up pointing most nearly at you.