Thursday, 23 December 2010

Multiply the what by the who and where?

Possibly my final update for 2010, and what a good year it's been, given the chance to undertake an MPhil/PhD, what could be better? (dont answer that, it will make me sad).

SO back to work, back to reality, back to trigonometry? Having cleaned up my code a little, identifying some new issues, along with some old, I've been looking at drawing edges (may help understand some old problems if I can visualise it).

In theory in appears relatively simple, which concerns me as nothing is ever THAT easy, but my understanding is:
  • calculate the size of the edge (pythagoras)
  • calculate the midpoint along the edge, so where the edge will be placed/drawn
  • calculate how much the cylinder should be rotated to get to the correct position with trigonometry
 I have yet to implement this as I am still working on the fine details (mostly of which axis' to rotate around).

Another development, I have now implemented a mechanism to focus on the center of the graph automatically (no manual translating for me!), using the coordinates of all points to find the center point of everything, which appears to work well.

Nothing more to really update upon, continuing my re-reading/note taking for the literature review is probably the next best highlight of the week. Other than the whole "it being Christmas" thing. Time to end I guess.

Merry Christmas!

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