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Re: trig

• Posted by "Patrick Barnes" <mistertrik at hotmail.com> Apr 19, 2004
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A suggestion...

sqrt() functions take time. Not much, but if you can eliminate them, all the 
better. Rather than finding the normal vector all the time, build your 
pre-defined angles list with vectors that have the larger component set to 1 
or -1, and the other scaled accordingly. For example, 0 degrees would be 
[1,0], 45 degrees would be [1,1], 90 degrees would be [0,1] and 180 degrees 
would be [-1,0]. That way, to scale your vector down to fit the standard, 
divide both by the larger value. For example: [112.2,40] would become [1, 
0.356...]

To find which angle is closest, do a binary search on your index of values, 
as others have said.


But this normalising method is much faster than using sqrts.

MrTrick