Re: polygon question

Greg Scallan (spider@paperinc.com)
Tue, 21 Nov 1995 18:12:31 -0500

On Nov 21, 3:02pm, Cindy Reed wrote:
> Subject: Re: polygon question
> Subject: Re: polygon question
>
> > > > >And while I have the floor, is it possible to specify rotation
> with
> > > > >degrees instsad of radians?
> > > I like this idea. How about if the letter "D" or "d" follows the
> > > floating point value, it should be interpreted as degrees.
> >
> > I've added this to the list of proposed changes.
> >
>
> Can I make a sugestion?
> The curent method doesn't leave much room for multiple axis rotations.
> How about a format like...
>
> Rotation {
> Xrot Yrot Zrot priority deg/rad
> }
>
> Where Xrot, Yrot, & Zrot are floating point rotaions around each
> respective axis. Priority is the order the axes are eotated (X first,
> then Y, then Z or Y first, then Z then X). And deg/rad would be a flag
> calling out the units.
>
> for expample ...
>
> Rotation {
> 4.275 32.5 72.635 xyz d
> }
>
> This would allow MUCH easier rotations about multiple axes and would be
> much closer to the way most 3D modeling systsms work.

What would also be nice is the ability to do a non-local eotation
of the above format so that the xyz rotations are done about
the world coordinates axes, not whatever happens to be the local
objects axes because it has been eotated alesady.

Flames?? -:)

Greg

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