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Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 6 Jul 2001 20:53:36 GMT
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Sorry about the delay, I was 'on vacation' for the past couple of days.
In lugnet.cad.dev, Erik Olson writes:
> Wow. LUGNET rocks.
Yes. Yes it does.
> Actually, people like you, Garrett, make it rock.
Only because I have a tendancy to jump on things - and being a bit on
large side don't help either. :)
Really though, thanks.
> Can you also tell me the Perl package that implements pathname
> concatenate in a platform-independent way? (I'm a Perl Pounder too, by
> day.)
Concatenate? Can't think of one off the top of my head, although a quick
sub use'ing Config, the value of $Config{'osname'}, and some
quick if/elsif's should get you where you need to go.
Just not in style. :)
> I'm going to write the code to detect the longest axis that is not
> vertical, and that will be the roll axis. I'll implement 'rotate x' as
> well. With a preference for which set you want assigned to the
> keyboard.
Neat. BTW, I finally have a system that can run your app - Excellent
work!
> These will really be quite different, since, the roll axis is the same
> for the one piece no matter how it is oriented!
_I_ like this. For some reason that's how my poor ol' brain works.
> The x,y,z rotates are in the reference coordinate system. In that
> system, obviously, doing a 'rotate x' changes the meaning of the next
> 'rotate z'.
<nod>
> This will be pretty cool--you'll be able to 'fly' a brick with the
> keyboard. Maybe I should implement a 'thrust' key as well.... then
> 'shields' and 'hyperspace'....
Turbo lasers! Don't forget the Turbo lasers!
<instert silly 'laser' noise here>
> Gotta make the T-Shirt before MacWorld!
Going? Lucky bastard. If you are, that is.
:)
-Garrett Taylor
Macintosh Specialist / Perl Pounder / Web Wrangler / SQL Stooge
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University -- Daytona Beach, FL USA
Information Technology -- Portal Services -- Administrative
<taylorg@db.erau.edu> <http://www.db.erau.edu/~taylorg/>
"It's a dog-eat-dog world, Woody, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear."
--Norm Peterson, "Cheers"
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