Hello Jim. > I'm assuming that the huge printout of "Roc roots=[<huge bunch of > 0's>]" is meant to be a reassuring indication that the error of the > approximation is small?
That's something that should be completely ignored. To be honest, I don't remember exactly what it was supposed to print, but I think I somehow used it to convince myself that using points where acceleration dot velocity == 0 as the endpoints for the false position algorithm would be a good way to find roots of ROC(t) - w. Regards, Denis. ----- "Jim Graham" <james.gra...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi Denis, > > On 10/19/2010 10:40 AM, Denis Lila wrote: > > Actually, I wrote a simple program to make sure the radius of > curvature > > function was correct. I have attached it. It's not a proof, but I > think > > it is convincing. Just hold down the mouse button and move it > horizontally. > > This will change the t value on the curve and the circle drawn will > have > > radius equal to Math.sqrt(ROCsq). You can also change the control > points of > > the curve. There's a bug where when you run it the window is really > tiny, so > > you have to manually resize it and maximize it. > > ...jim
