Radians are annoying as hell :) I understand why math nerds prefer it, but with the inherit inacuracy of both ISO floats and most on-chip SINE calculations combined, we're probably better off with decimal degrees for code readability.
-Josh On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think asking folks to type in rotation in radians in Flash Authoring > would be a pain for designers. > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Gordon Smith > *Sent:* Monday, August 11, 2008 12:53 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Unknown discrepancy.. > > > > I suspect that the Flash Player folks made this decision on the grounds of > usability. Non-mathematicians understand "rotate this graphic by 90 degrees" > a lot better than "rotate this graphic by pi/2 radians". Of course, the > argument to the sine and cosine functions has to be in radians to meet > mathematical convention. > > > > Gordon Smith > > Adobe Flex SDK Team > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Samuel Colak > *Sent:* Monday, August 11, 2008 8:30 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Unknown discrepancy.. > > > > Alex and Guys, > > anyone understand why for instance displayObject.rotation is in > degrees whilst everything else (Math.functions for instance) use > radians? > > Many thanks, > Samuel > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
