On Thursday 02 March 2006 09:55, Oliver Schroeder wrote:
> The FG-protocoll sends a vector as orientation data, defined as:
>
> --- cut ---
> // orientation wrt the earth centered frame, stored in the angle axis
> // representation where the angle is coded into the axis length
> xdr_data_t orientation[3];
> --- cut ---
>
> I can either compute a degree value (0=north, 180=south etc) and provide
> the map with this as an additional value or provide the complete vector.
>
> Since the map uses the telnet interface to the server, which in fact wasn't
> meant to get "abused" that way but let humans have a look at current
> clients, I suggest to let the server print out a degree value so humans can
> make sense of that value, too.
Well the choice to use that 'compressed angle axis' format for the orientation
is to have a minimum size format for that data to gain a maximum of
additional space for additional information like property changes.
Greetings
Mathias
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