Useful Trig Methods
I've recently been working on a physics/trigonometry project at home using Processing and memo's amazing MSARemote. In short, I realized I haven't posted anything on Tomorrow Evening in ages, I have a lot of cool things up my sleeve right now, just trying to find time to get all these ideas out. I'll be taking all of Thanksgiving week off to take a break from work and do some fun experiments. If I weren't a web developer I'd turn my internet off for a few weeks, I keep finding such great developers/art online that I start something new every other day and never finish what I was working on the day before! That needs to end soon :P. I know I said I was doing a Processing experiment and this code is in AS3 but I have a good reason why! My wordpress doesn't know how to format processing code and since it's only a few lines, I converted it to AS3.
function findDistance(x1:Number, y1:Number, x2:Number, y2:Number) : Number{ var xd:Number = x1 - x2; var yd:Number = y1 - y2; var td:Number = Math.sqrt(xd * xd + yd * yd); return td; } function findAngle(x1:Number, y1:Number, x2:Number, y2:Number) : Number{ var xd:Number = x1 - x2; var yd:Number = y1 - y2; var t:Number = Math.atan2(yd,xd); var a:Number = 180 + (-(180 * t) / Math.PI); return a; }