Jesus Guardon said in the recent thread "Modulo operator returns wrong
results ":
Hi Paul et all
When working with some video games, there are a feature called
wraparound or screen wrap. It consists on objects leaving one side of
the screen that immediately reappear on the opposite side, maintaining
speed and trajectory. For this task usually modular arithmetic is used,
involving the Mod operator.
As I said before, on Python at least, it works as expected with
negative
numbers, and not only integers.
Lets imagine a spaceship in a drawing area 800px wide that reaches past
the left edge of the screen. Just before it passes, say at pixel 2 in X
coordinates, the operation would be:
2 Mod 800 = 2
So, nothing has changed in its position. But when the ship is at
negative coordinates, say again -2:
-2 Mod 800 = 798
That's exactly the opposite side of the drawing area, which is what I
had expected. If -2 would be returned instead, it won't work.
However this is not an issue for me, since this can be solved this way:
Private Sub fmod(Dd As Float, d As Float) As Float
If Dd < 0 Then
Return Abs((Frac(Dd / d)) * d - d)
Else
Return (Frac(Dd / d)) * d
Endif
End
So no need to modify gambas at all, ;-)
---
A couple of questions. First which is the upper-bound (screen
width/height) and which is the current value (position), Dd or d?
Second, is there a way using this algorithm to specify the lower-bound?
The solutions I've found online for "wrapping" a number between an
arbitrary lower- and upper-bound don't work when the value being wrapped
is negative. The algorithm I'm using is horribly inefficient, as it uses
loops.
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Kevin Fishburne
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