I like the comment: "You mean, you want to build a spaceship, but don't know how to build a bike?"
I do not think the sprites will help you very far. Your example screenshot indicates you want to rotate objects and also you want to give it a notion of 3D, which involves shading and other nice extras.
If somebody would buy me time (lots of time) and I had the task to build a 3D gesture builder, I would base all my work on things like that:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics
http://www.lutanho.net/svgvml3d/
http://www.svgopen.org/2010/papers/58-WebGL__SVG/
http://javascript.open-libraries.com/multimedia/3d/svg-vml-3d-javscript-libraries/