[X3D-Public] [Source] computing an SFRotation from 2 points?

Herbert Stocker herbert.stocker at bitmanagement.de
Thu Jun 25 02:13:05 PDT 2009



Don, i made a tutorial about rotations and aiming the camera at a 
certain point.
It's at http://www.hersto.net/Tutorials/Rotations3D.php?lay=2
Scroll down towards "Orienting a Camera Towards an Object" and there is 
script code
for what you want to do. It's old-style VrmlScript, but should run as 
SAI EcmaScript,
too.

BTW, would it be possible/desirable to link this tutorial and the others 
i did from the tutorials
page of the Web3D site (http://www.web3d.org/x3d/learn/tutorial/ )?

/Herbert


/
Don Brutzman wrote:
> newbie question:  want to compute an SFRotation orientation from
> 2 SFVec3f point locations using Java.
>
> fyi this will be used in X3D-Edit as an authoring assist, to compute
> the desired Viewpoint orientation (relative to -z axis default view)
> that aims the Viewpoint from defined position towards a look-at point.
>
> prefer to use X3D SAI for Java if possible.  however i am not finding any
> utility functions in the spec:
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/specifications/ISO-IEC-19777-2-X3DLanguageBindings-Java/Part2/X3D_Java.html 
>
>
> however the X3D SAI for ECMAScript does have such a utility method:
> Table 7.18 — SFRotation instance creation functions
>     SFRotation      (SFVec3f fromVector, SFVec3f toVector)
>     fromVector and toVector are normalized and the rotation value
>     that would rotate from the fromVector to the toVector is stored
>     in the object.
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/specifications/ISO-IEC-19777-1-X3DLanguageBindings-ECMAScript/Part1/functions.html#t-SFRotationInstanceCreationFunctions 
>
>
> thanks in advance for pointers or any example code, either using
> Java SAI or simply some other exemplar Java source.
>
> all the best, Don


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