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Computer Graphics and Visualisation: Input Devices

Graphics workstations use various input devices including keyboards, mice, trackballs, spaceballs, joysticks, button boxes, touch panels, image scanners, and voice systems. Keyboards are used to enter text and commands, and mice allow relative cursor positioning. Trackballs and spaceballs provide cursor control and 3D positioning. Joysticks control cursor movement via lever pressure. Touch panels select displayed objects via finger touch. Image scanners digitize drawings and photos. Voice systems recognize spoken commands.

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Computer Graphics and Visualisation: Input Devices

Graphics workstations use various input devices including keyboards, mice, trackballs, spaceballs, joysticks, button boxes, touch panels, image scanners, and voice systems. Keyboards are used to enter text and commands, and mice allow relative cursor positioning. Trackballs and spaceballs provide cursor control and 3D positioning. Joysticks control cursor movement via lever pressure. Touch panels select displayed objects via finger touch. Image scanners digitize drawings and photos. Voice systems recognize spoken commands.

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Computer Graphics and Visualisation

Input devices
Input Devices

Graphics workstations make use of various devices for


data input.
Most systems have keyboards and mouse while some
other systems have trackball, space ball, joystick,
button boxes, touch panels, image scanners and voice
systems.
Keyboard:
Keyboard on graphics system is used for entering text
strings, issuing certain commands and selecting menu
options.
 Keyboards can also be provided with features for
entry of screen coordinates, menu selections or
graphics functions.
General purpose keyboard uses function keys and
cursor-control keys.
Function keys allow user to select frequently accessed
operations with a single keystroke. Cursor-control keys
are used for selecting a displayed object or a location
by positioning the screen cursor
Button Boxes and Dials:
 Buttons are often used to input predefined
functions .Dials are common devices for entering
scalar values.
Numerical values within some defined range are
selected for input with dial rotations.
Mouse Devices:
 Mouse is a hand-held device,usually moved around on
a flat surface to position the screen cursor.wheeler or
roolers on the bottom of the mouse used to record the
amount and direction of movement.
Some of the mouses uses optical sensors,which detects
movement across the horizontal and vertical grid lines.
 Since a mouse can be picked up and put down,it is
used for making relative changes in the position of the
screen.
Most general purpose graphics systems now include a
mouse and a keyboard as the primary input devices.
Trackballs and Spaceballs:

A trackball is a ball device that can be


rotated with the fingers or palm of the hand to produce
screen cursor movement.
 Laptop keyboards are equipped with a trackball to
eliminate the extra space required by a mouse.
Spaceball is an extension of two-dimensional trackball
concept.
Spaceballs are used for three-dimensional positioning
and selection operations in virtual reality systems
modeling,animation,CAD and other applications.
Joysticks:
Joystick is used as a positioning device, which uses a
small vertical lever(stick) mounded on a base.
It is used to steer the screen cursor around and select
screen position with the stick movement.
A push or pull on the stick is measured with strain
gauges and converted to movement of the screen
cursor in the direction of the applied pressure.
Image Scanners:
Drawings , graphs, photographs or text can be stored
for computer processing with an image scanner by
passing an optical scanning mechanism over the
information to be stored.
Once we have the representation of the picture, then
we can apply various image processing method to
modify the representation of the picture and various
editing operations can be performed on the stored
documents.
Touch Panels:
 Touch panels allow displayed objects or screen
positions to be selected with the touch of a finger.
 Touch panel is used for the selection of processing
options that are represented as a menu of graphical
icons.
 Optical touch panel-uses LEDs along one vertical and
horizontal edge of the frame.
Acoustical touch panels generates high-frequency
sound waves in horizontal and vertical directions
across a glass plate.
Voice Systems:
 Speech recognizers are used with some graphics
workstations as input devices for voice commands.
The voice system input can be used to initiate
operations or to enter data.
A dictionary is set up by speaking command words
several times, then the system analyses each word and
matches with the voice command to match the pattern

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