z-axis

Maybe with another linear cam in the z-axis (assuming the rods are in the x-y plane), or with levers, gears, axles, something.

Another linear transmission mechanism « The Half-Baked Maker 2010

Though similarities to Super Paper Mario's dimensional shifts are still being drawn elsewhere, Fez does far more with its z-axis than anyone before has dared, making progress through its world directly reliant on cutting a path through each of its four sides.

Ten for 2010: the 10 most-anticipated games coming in the new year Boing Boing 2009

December 14th, 2009 at 2: 34 pm you left out the z-axis, “People who ignore it out of fear or jealousy” … or would that be better expressed by a Venn diagram? fireflight Says:

Opinions are like bellybuttons. 2009

So maybe the z-axis could be “treatment”. scott Says:

Information overload and/or closet organizers. 2009

If this were three-dimensional, you could have a z-axis labeled “alcohol ingested.”

Run, run quickly! 2010

Section E 5′28″ – 6′13″ – Moving Playfield: Another ‘gradually evolving’ section where i tried to establish the basis for the section by zooming in place, then breaking that expectation by zooming to different spots, then breaking that by adding x-axis rotation, then breaking that by adding z-axis rotation.

chain factor: the video – an ant hill into a mountain 2009

Again, a great sense of expansiveness will be possible by expanding the sense of depth, and a cramped, claustrophobia will be possible through “squeezing the air” out of the z-axis.

3D Avatar vs. 2D Avatar, and the Importance of Aspect Ratios | /Film 2009

Hell with that – as badly as most of the idiots on the road drive regular cars, do we really want to put them thousands of feet in the air with a z-axis to worry about?

Interview with Gary A. Ballard (Interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo) Cindy 2009

It is created in a 3D environment and yet despite the presence of a z-axis it manages to remain flat and devoid of substance.

Is Second Life the theatre of the absurd? Ask the Kool-Aid Man in SL Bettina Tizzy 2009

But the movement here, while accurate, doesn't give me a strong "feeling" of movement (though the splash helps) this is mainly due to staging choices (the action is coming at us along the z-axis in a long shot) and the movement of the waves is given the same amount of detail and attention as the main figure.

Action Poses and Photography James Gurney 2008