Re: [JAVA3D] normal

1999-12-12 Thread Tony Burrows
On 10 Dec 99, at 21:43, SUBSCRIBE JAVA3D-INTEREST pet wrote: > dear all > i am a beginner. so want to ask some simple question. > i don't know what is normal? can anyone exaplain to me. > is that related to the rotate axis ? > _A_ normal Peter. When you have a surface, then any line which is pe

[JAVA3D] projection

1999-12-12 Thread Hardy Henneberg
Hello, I'm trying to implement a new perspective projection, which should assure that vertical lines in the virtual world transforms into vertical lines on the screen, when the camera top is upwards but not nessecary horizontal. But I don't understand how the transform object is used in projectio

Re: [JAVA3D] A good example of dynamic scene changes

1999-12-12 Thread peter
no way i wanna take credit for this code as u can see it is just slight modification of Don's code but i thought i might help just was hacking while having dinner :) good luck Peter. Daniel Selman wrote: > Dan, > > Looks good. Couple of comments: > > If you take out this check, you

[JAVA3D] roll, pitch, yaw to direction vector..

1999-12-12 Thread wayne c deprince jr.
ciao, this is more of a math question than java3d question but i figure someone must have done this before: how can one go from the roll, yaw, and pitch of an object in radians into a direction vector and vice versa? thanks in advance, wayne begin:vcard n:deprince jr.;wayne c. tel;cell:215.630.5

Re: [JAVA3D] A good example of dynamic scene changes

1999-12-12 Thread Dan Todor
Daniel, Thanks again for your observations. As a matter of fact, the actual version works exactly the way you said it, with the postId method, I have 20 displays with a Billboard attached , and the code with 3 digits was something imposed by the end user , I have only values within -99.99 ... 99.9

Re: [JAVA3D] A good example of dynamic scene changes

1999-12-12 Thread Dan Todor
A really nice hack ... Congrats peter wrote: > no way i wanna take credit for this code as u can see it is > just slight modification of Don's code but i thought i might help > just was hacking while having dinner :) > good luck > Peter. > > Daniel Selman wrote: > > > Dan, > > >