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I orginally posted this in the C# form (the language I am trying to write this in) and recieved no responses  . Thought I would try here before giving up.
I am trying to allow wrapping of a world map from east to west or west to east (the map is split down the Pacific Ocean). Thus the map would appear to be a cylinder not a rectangle. As the user scrolls across the dividing line the other map edge appears.
I thought this would be resonable but I have not been able to find much searching (map, warpping and scrolling appear in many contexts). Any help would be greatly appericated.
Thanks,
Jim
this thing looks like it was written by an epileptic ferret
Dave Kreskowiak
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What you're after is applying Mercator Projection. This[^] might help you.
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Yes, I want to apply a Mercator Projection but I don't think I was clear with my orginal question, I'll try again.
Only part of the map is visible at any given time. What happens when the user reaches the left/right edge of the map in order to see more they must scroll to the opposite edge. Similar to a huge mercator projection painted on a 500 foot long sheet of paper lying flat on the ground. You reach the end of the paper and if you want to see more of the map you have to go back to the other edge (what I have now). If what you are interested in is over or close to the split you are always going back and forth. Now picture that same map on cyclinderical tower which has a 500 foot diameter. The two edges of the map meet and you don't have to go back and forth (what I want to have).
I have attempted to do this by using an oversized map (shows 380 degrees of longtitude when viewed completely) and resetting the X location. I haven't been able to get this to work.
Any ideas?
Jim
this thing looks like it was written by an epileptic ferret
Dave Kreskowiak
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Hi,
I don't see where the problem could be (unless you hope to solve this with a PictureBox  ). Here are some thoughts, they may not be optimal, just intended to show a possible way:
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if you have an image of the world (say from longitude 0 to long 360), then you need to paint it in two steps, first from your starting longitude x0 upto 360, then from 0 to the right border (x0 again). So calling some overload of Graphics.DrawImage twice should do it.
An altenative is to construct a double-sized image once (that is from 0 to 360 and again from 0 to 360)
and then paint the right part of it.
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if you are drawing the world yourself, you can draw it in the regular way, you only need to adjust the x coordinate and again tranform the longitudes [0,360) to [x0...360, 0...x0).
This by itself could be handled by modifying all x coordinates; or more easily by having your paint code execute twice, once with a translation that takes care of the left part so [0, x0) gets clipped of at the left, and once with a translation that takes care of the right part so [x0, 360) gets clipped of at the right.
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Thanks for your help.
Jim
this thing looks like it was written by an epileptic ferret
Dave Kreskowiak
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You're welcome.
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Im having trouble with the game im making (nothing fancy just my first 2D game)
and I almost got it complete, but i cant figure a way to get it to pause durring the game.
Im kinda new at DirectX so its probly simple, but ive looked everywhere,
someone recomended system pause but ive read that it should be avoided.
Anyone got any ideas? Or at least a hint in the right direction?
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I assume you have a game loop in your project - if you do, then all you need to do is put a simple check into the loop to determine whether your game has paused or not. If you are in a pause, then the loop does no processing.
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I am using graphics to create a speed meter.
To do this I would like to draw a line from the center of the circle to the side of the circle. You would normaly use sinus etc. for this, but my circle isn't really round, it's more oval like (the height is bigger than the width).
How is it possible to draw this line?
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Hi,
a circle with radius r at the origin is represented by x*x + y*y = r*r
an ellips with big radius r at the origin is represented by x*x + a*a*y*y = r*r
where a (a factor larger than 1) is the ratio between the large radius (along the x-axis) and the small radius (along the y-axis).
So basically an ellips is a circle where you reduce y to y/a, and for each point (x,y) that would sit on the circle, the point (x, y/a) would sit at the corresponding location on the ellips.
To visualize: paint a circle on a sheet of paper, now tilt the sheet around a horizontal line: the circle becomes an ellips and all vertical dimensions shrink by the same factor.
Depending on what you want exactly, this might be all you need. When angles are involved, it gets a little bit more complex.
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Thank you for explaining this. Seems not to hard.
But my question is indeed about angles.
If you would like to take a gast look to this picture so you understand what I'm making:
http://technology.amis.nl/blog/wp-content/images/postReadSpeedSpeedo.jpg[^]
The thing I want to make is an arrow like that based on an angle. The shape of the arrow is not a big deal, it's about the angle and how to know the length of the arrow.
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Well, that image shows a circle, if all you want to do is compress or stretch it in one dimension, then just do that by multiplying one coordinate by a constant factor. Give it a try in an app such as Photoshop by changing one component of the image size (uncheck "keep aspect ratio" or whatever they called it).
The one situation where you would need angle stuff is where you would want an arrow moving at a constant angular speed in the ellips (which would not then be a constant angular speed in the corresponding circle).
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Yes, you're totaly true that I can use a photoshop-like program.
But I really want to calculate it on my own.
The picture is created by code, everything has to be configurable, for instance: the hight, the width, the amount of arrows and where the arrows point to.
The problem is that the width is not always equal to the height. So that's the only problem I have. I know it is possible because it's allready solved by microsoft (Graphics.drawPie).
I hope that you can tell me how to calculate this eclipse like with the only variables you have: the angle, the width, the height.
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Still having a hang-over from mardi gras?
I explained how ellipses work. I gave you the math.
I suggested you look at your picture, when Photoshop stretches it, so you don't have to create or modify any code to see and maybe understand how a scale transform turns a circle into an ellipse.
By now you should realize all it takes is adding a scale factor to your Graphics code, either explicitly or by providing a ScaleTransform or Matrix.
For me this topic is closed.
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Lol yeah it's the beer :P.
I didn't realize it was just about adding the scale factor , now I do.
And I thought you suggested to stretch the picture in photoshop, just for visualisation.
Thank you for your help
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IF:
Xo, Yo - the center of the ellipse
Rx, Ry - the two radius'
alpha - is the angle in radians!!!
Calculate:
X = Xo + Rx*cos(alpha);
Y = Yo + Ry*sin(alpha);
Draw:
a line from (Xo,Yo) to (X,Y)
*In case you have a circle, then Rx=Ry = R of circle
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Btw, if you want to implement as it was on the picture, I would highly recommend using a circle, because otherwise the length of the hands will vary, which is not realistic.
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Hi all,
This is with reference to an old message posted by me which you can find here
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=387159&msg=2452196[^]
For the past one year this piece of code which Mr.Mark gave me; satisfied my requirements excellently. Now I have come up with a problem of displaying colour video. I will need help once again in modifying the code to colour mode. The main problem is how I should arrange the pixels and where to write it. What are the BITMAPINFO parameters that I have to change. Hope to get a reply at the earliest.
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How many bits per pixel (what's the pixel format)?
Mark
Mark Salsbery
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8 bit per pixel in RGB format.I have three arrays of unsigned char for each R,G and B values.
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So do you mean 24 bits per pixel? There's no 8bpp RGB format for Windows bitmaps...
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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To create the DIBSection, you can drop the palette and change the bmiHeader.biBitCount:
BITMAPINFO *bm = (BITMAPINFO *)new BYTE[sizeof(BITMAPINFO)];
bm->bmiHeader.biSize = sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);
bm->bmiHeader.biWidth = 176;
bm->bmiHeader.biHeight = 144;
bm->bmiHeader.biPlanes = 1;
bm->bmiHeader.biBitCount = 24;
bm->bmiHeader.biCompression = BI_RGB;
bm->bmiHeader.biSizeImage = 0;
bm->bmiHeader.biXPelsPerMeter = 0;
bm->bmiHeader.biYPelsPerMeter = 0;
bm->bmiHeader.biClrUsed = 0;
bm->bmiHeader.biClrImportant = 0;
BYTE *pBitmapBits;
HBITMAP hBitmap = ::CreateDIBSection(NULL, bm, DIB_RGB_COLORS, (void**)&pBitmapBits, NULL, 0);
if (hBitmap)
{
::DeleteObject(hBitmap);
}
delete[] (BYTE *)bm;
jossion wrote: I have 8 bits of R,8 bits of G and 8 bits of B seperately in seperate arrays
The pixel data (pointed to by pBitmapBits) will now be a RGBTRIPLE struct for each pixel:
typedef struct tagRGBTRIPLE {
BYTE rgbtBlue;
BYTE rgbtGreen;
BYTE rgbtRed;
} RGBTRIPLE;
You'll need to take the individual RGB component bytes from the arrays and
pack them in the RGBTRIPLE format - BGRBGRBGR...
Mark
Mark Salsbery
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I would suggest:
bm->bmiHeader.biHeight = -144;
instead of
bm->bmiHeader.biHeight = 144;
When height is positive, the bitmap is bottom-up oriented.
In 99% our bitmap sources are up-bottom oriented.
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