Re: [Gzz] Re: [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst

[Alatalo Toni]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Asko Soukka wrote:

(just a note, not really knowing the issue at hand)

> Human seem to be generally divided into left and right... Something
(...)
> is divided into left and right. The left side of the visual field goes
> finally to the right hemisphere and right side to the left.

true, but

up and down are obviously strong notions too. (and opposite with ants)
do note that the meaning of left and right varies in different cultures
(depends on the direction of reading, e.g. in arabic and asian langs).

in one interesting system, up&down were used to zoom/scale items - see:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/guimbretire01fluid.html
Fluid Interaction with High-resolution Wall-size Displays (2001)
François Guimbretire, Maureen Stone, Terry Winograd

part 3.2 ZoomScapes. the idea is that "each point has an associated
scaling value" and, if I remember correctly, up&down were good for that
(when working on a wall).

~Toni (an-t)