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Comment by xentronium | Hacker News Reader

Sorry, the controls are insane. I move mouse out to rotate the figure to see the face I want to change color for, then I move mouse in and the dodecahedron rotates again, moving the desired face back. Please, add some arrow controls or something different from mouse movement to rotate.

Otherwise neat and hope you find a good internship.

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That was fun - possibly the seed of a great video game :) .

Probably the easiest fix for the controls would be to limit which mouse movements move the shape: moving down would spin it up, but moving up would do nothing. Moving left would spin it right, but moving back across it would do nothing. That way you could move it into place and then come back to click on where you want.

Also, it would be lovely if the most centered face, the one that is changeable, became outlined when it comes into focus.

I agree: it's barely usable as it is. I hacked it this very night, and those were the best controls I was able to build. Thank you for playing and for the critique!

It's an interesting idea. Perhaps use keyboard rotation controls?

You might also want to cull backwards polygons or use a depth buffer.

Oh this is really cool, and one of the few demos I actually want to interact with. But alas I am unable to control it in any kind of intuitive way, thus it is useless (sorry) Fix the UI please!!!

EDIT: Oh and add a histogram of how far along a solution you are

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