Fighting with spherical

coordinates

Simon Strange
Pipeworks
The Point of all this:

Some concepts we’ve

already learned could be
giving us new and important
insights into the problems
we’re solving.
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(Shameless Plug)
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Spherical Coordinates!
(finally)
(R+h)^2 = R^2 + d^2

(R+h)^2 = R^2 + 2Rh +h^2

d^2 = 2Rh + h^2

Standard distance (collision) check:

d^2 = (x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2 + (z-c)^2

Great Arc distance between two points on a unit sphere:

s=rcos^−1(cosθ1cosθ2 + sinθ1sinθ2cos(φ1−φ2)).
For a point (
For a point (

 Provides a linear translation of

distance, measured in radians.
For a point (

 Provides a linear translation of

distance, measured in radians.

IS the distance!

Our goal : find a simple rotational transformation which can be
applied efficiently to all points, such that an arbitrary point moves
to the North Pole.

If successful, we can order all objects by  coordinate, to determine

visibility by distance.
For a point (
For a point (

 Provides a linear translation of

distance, measured in radians.
For a point (

 Provides a linear translation of

distance, measured in radians.

IS the distance from prime meridian!

Rodrigues' rotation formula:
Rodrigues' rotation formula:

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The Point of all this:

Some concepts we’ve

already learned could be
giving us new and important
insights into the problems
we’re solving.