What the **** is trig?

[LegendsEnd]

I don't see how trig can be applied to most programming. Maybe if it was a program designed to calculate waves like light/sound or something, but aside from that, how can it be applied to general applications?

[Mazer]

How about games, for an example? Trig is used to determine how fast an object is moving along the X, Y, and Z axes based on the angle of the object.

[cool dude]

not only speed. trig is used so when your changing direction it doesn't just go straight up/down right/left. it turns and makes it more realistic. for instance evasive maneuveurs by mazer a memorable game. if u played the game u would see that his ships would not move just up/down they also would move on different angles.

[Cervantes]

cool dude: That's what Mazer said.

cool dude wrote:

for instance evasive maneuveurs by mazer a memorable game

Memorable? That's it?! Your worship is a little off, but you'll be forgiven.

[MysticVegeta]

Cervantes wrote:

cool dude: That's what Mazer said.

cool dude wrote:

for instance evasive maneuveurs by mazer a memorable game

Memorable? That's it?! Your worship is a little off, but you'll be forgiven.

Evasive Maneuvers is by Coutsos,
but it is by Mazer too,
so mazer = coutsos?? and all this time I thought coutsos left compsci rofl.

[[Gandalf]]

MysticVegeta wrote:

Cervantes wrote:

cool dude: That's what Mazer said.

cool dude wrote:

for instance evasive maneuveurs by mazer a memorable game

Memorable? That's it?! Your worship is a little off, but you'll be forgiven.

Evasive Maneuvers is by Coutsos,
but it is by Mazer too,
so mazer = coutsos?? and all this time I thought coutsos left compsci rofl.

...he did...

Trig is neccessary for any object movement more complex than up/down left/right.

[Mazer]

Coutsos helped alot with the programming. Really, most of what I contributed was just the graphics.

[Andy]

lol put back that cool spinning avatar you had two years ago

[ZeroPaladn]

argh. teaching myself this is harder than i though. I just got the pythagorean theorm downpat, along with re-learning Soh Cah Toa, and where to use it. It's gonna be a long april.

[NikG]

I know how you feel. I learned trig back in highschool (over 3 years ago), and I'd forgotten everything.

But for some reason, SOH-CAH-TOA always stayed in my head.
So just by remembering that, I created my first ever program using angles (the ever-popular breakout) just a month back.
Since then, I've been using Turings arctand/sind/cosd function is almost all my programs.

Let me know if you need some help figuring out angles for object movement.

[Mazer]

Andy wrote:

lol put back that cool spinning avatar you had two years ago

Oh damn, I can actually use it now! Pimpin'!

[Andy]

wow actually taht's 3 years ago.. man i feel old