[SOLVED] heading vector problem
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Hi,
its hard to describe my problem without a image, so please take a look at this:
http://www.users.pjwstk.edu.pl/~s2562/problem.jpg
P,P1, and O are points in 3d, but they all are in one plane (for all of them Y value are 0), so we could think about them as 2d points. V is a vector (same as points, showing 2d direction). My aim is to find angle by which I have to rotate heading vector to aim at P1 point. Rotation orgin is O. Is it possible to do it with this 4 parameters (P,O,P1,V)? If I knew P` or V` i could count angle.
Thanks for any help.
Krystian
[Edited by - KxL on January 26, 2007 2:47:52 PM]
you know alpha, which the angle between vector |OP| and V.
you know |OP'| (the radius of turn).
you know |OP1|.
you know |OP'| (the radius of turn).
you know |OP1|.
I was going to suggest that you find the intersection of the direction ray with a circle centered at O with radius |OP1|. Call that point Q. Then the rotation is just the angle between OQ and OP1. You can determine angle and rotation direction with a dot/cross product pair.
I too made a pretty picture (just modified your original one):
I too made a pretty picture (just modified your original one):
Author
Thank you all!
Zipster, your solution is greate. I do my own calculations, and my solution was:
http://www.users.pjwstk.edu.pl/~s2562/odp.jpg
as you can see, I haven't notice, that my angle is QOP1, and draw another circle, and do circle-cirlce intersection to find P' Your solution is much more clever.
Best regards,
Krystian
Zipster, your solution is greate. I do my own calculations, and my solution was:
http://www.users.pjwstk.edu.pl/~s2562/odp.jpg
as you can see, I haven't notice, that my angle is QOP1, and draw another circle, and do circle-cirlce intersection to find P' Your solution is much more clever.
Best regards,
Krystian
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