Sweet! I did not know about the [gemlist_info] object! This is handy! ~Kyle
On 5/9/07, Roman Haefeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:11 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Roman, > > Thanks for your help. Chris just clued me in on gemlist_info, check out > > the help file it looks like what > > we both have been looking for. Plus you can do as many transformations as > > you like and then put > > gemlist_info at the end of the chain to give you the absolute position, > > shear, size and orientation. But > > thanks for the abstactions you wrote, they will come in handy. > > i am not sure, if they make any sense at all, since there is > [gemlist_info]. they might be usefull for an non-gem context, though... > > > roman > > > > > Alain > > > > > > From: Roman Haefeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 2007/05/09 Wed AM 10:00:54 EDT > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > CC: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [PD] Geo absolute position > > > > > > hi alain > > > > > > because of the same problem, i wrote a small collection of vector > > > processing abstractions. instead of using several [translateXYZ] and > > > [rotateXYZ] objects in one chain, i decided to only use one > > > [translateXYZ] for the position of the geo and one [rotatateXYZ] for its > > > orientation. for calculating the the positions and orientations, i used > > > the abstractions, i mentioned above. it seems awkard to have to compute > > > all that stuff yourself, since there are object, that should make life > > > easier, but i din't find any better way to overcome that problem yet. > > > > > > you can find the abstractions here: > > > http://www.romanhaefeli.net/software/pd/vector_abs.tar.gz > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:25 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I have been looking for this answer for a while now. In Gem, is there > > > > a way to get the absolute > > > > position of a geo after its been rotated, moved, rotated again, etc...? > > > > For example: > > > > > > > > [gemhead] > > > > | > > > > [translateXYZ 0 1 0] > > > > | > > > > [rotateXYZ 0 0 90] > > > > | > > > > [translateXYZ 1 0 0] > > > > | > > > > [circle 0.1] > > > > | > > > > [absolute position] > > > > > > i think, it would also be cool to not only know the position, but also > > > its orientation. further would it be usefull to have some > > > angel-to-vector conversion, so that an orientation given in angles would > > > be outputted as the three vectors rotated by these angles. > > > > > > roman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > > Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! > > > Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: > http://mail.yahoo.de > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > -- http://theradioproject.com http://perhapsidid.blogspot.com (((())))(()()((((((((()())))()(((((((())()()())()))) (())))))(()))))))))))))(((((((((((()()))))))))((()))) ))(((((((((((())))())))))))))))))))__________ _____())))))(((((((((((((()))))))))))_______ ((((((())))))))))))((((((((000)))oOOOOOO _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
