[OpenWalnut-Dev] WGridRegular3D

[Andre Reichenbach]

On 10/28/2010 06:13 PM, Mathias Goldau wrote:
> Am 28.10.2010 17:12, Andre Reichenbach wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think our grid has become quite confusing. It seems there are several
>> matrices and other data fields that describe the orientation of the
>> grid. Also there are some interesting things like getOffset*() returning
>> the norm of m_direction* instead of m_offset*, and so on.
>>
>> I'm thinking about reworking the grid with the following things in mind:
>>
>> - avoiding data duplication (i.e. there is only one orientation matrix)
>> - the user should not need to know about the semantics of internal data
>>
>>
>>    (this leads to streamlining constructors for example, different
>> constructors
>>     seem to set different values for several internal data fields, for
>> example
>>     unit axis vectors for the directions, which in turn leads to
>> getOffset*()
>>     ignoring the actual offsets as those are represented in the
>> transformation matrix... )
>>
>> Also, shouldn't grids - as they are parts of datasets - be const? I've
>> seen several members that
>> suggest transformations on an existing grids are possible.
>>
>> I do not want to rush this, as there might be a lot of things that may
>> get broken in the process.
>> However, we should discuss this at the next meeting, which could be Mon
>> 7th, for example.
>>      
> great, but the 7th of Nov is a Sunday, I guess. What about the 8'th then?
>
> Mathias
>
>    
I did mean Mon 8th, of course.

Andre