Gesture orbit design
A computing apparatus and method of manipulating a displayed orbit of an object by detecting a gesture having a correspondence between body movements as the gesture and a resulting change to one or more orbital parameters within a displayed orbit system, changing an orbital parameter of the displayed orbit system according to detection of the gesture, and changing visualization on the computer display screen of the orbit system according to the change to the orbital parameter.
1. A device coupled to a touch screen display, the device comprising:
a computer processor that executes:
associating a detected multi-touch gesture on the touch screen display with a corresponding change to one or more orbital parameters within a displayed orbit system without use of an intermediary user-interface element, wherein:
the displayed orbit system includes a central object,
the displayed orbit system includes an orbital object on an orbit path around the central object, and
the orbital parameters represent one or more of orbital object position, orbital path shape, orbital path position, or orbital path orientation; and
directly without using an intermediary user-interface element changing an orbital parameter of the displayed orbit system according to defining parameters of the detected multi-touch gesture, causing a change in visualization of the orbital object in relation to the central object responsive to the changed orbital parameter of the displayed orbit system.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein a group of two or more orbital parameters are correlated to the multi-touch gesture.
3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the changing of the orbital parameter of the displayed object comprises mapping a value of a fixed interval orbital parameter to a pinch type multi-touch gesture while a value of a cyclic orbital parameter is mapped to a rotational type multi-touch gesture.
4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the orbital parameters comprise an orbital object position on an orbital path at a time and a date, and the direct changing of the orbital parameter further comprises calculating a position of the orbital object on the orbit path at a time and date in response to the defining parameters of same multi-touch gesture.
5. A method implemented by a computing apparatus capable of being coupled to a touch screen display, comprising:
controlling a computer processor to execute:
associating a detected multi-touch gesture on the touch screen display with a corresponding change to one or more orbital parameters within a displayed orbit system without use of an intermediary user-interface element, wherein:
the displayed orbit system includes a central object,
the displayed orbit system includes an orbital object on an orbit path around the central object, and
the orbital parameters represent one or more of orbital object position, orbital path shape, orbital path position, or orbital path orientation; and
directly without using an intermediary user-interface element changing an orbital parameter of the displayed orbit system according to defining parameters of the detected multi-touch gesture, causing a change in visualization of the orbital object in relation to the central object responsive to the changed orbital parameter of the displayed orbit system.
6. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute the method of claim 5 .