[GRASS-dev] symbol rotation is go

[Carlos "Guâno" Grohmann]

Good news!

Now we can start making geological maps, with symbols for foliation,
bedding planes etc rotated according to the strike angle.

One less feature that Arc has an GRASS don't.

thanks!


Carlos


On 4/26/07, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just added a new libgis function: G_rotate_around_pt() in 6.3cvs.
>  (make distclean, yet again)
>
> It rotates a point around a given center coord by a given angle.
>
> this enables a few things--
>
> Anything that uses D_symbol() can now pass S_stroke() a rotation angle.
> (and have it do something, the stub was already there)
>
> d.graph: you can now rotate symbols. for example, a sideways mushroom-
>  echo -e "rotation 45\nsymbol demo/muchomurka 120 50 50 black red" | \
>     d.graph
>
> ps.map: label boxes are now padded slightly from the point coord.
>   (matches what d.labels did already; rotation safe)
>
> possibility for wind-barb or arrow symbols to be rendered at arbitrary
> angles, e.g. angle taken from an attribute column, with less low-level
> display lib C coding. I've been thinking about a wind-barb fn for a
> while:  D_barb(double velocity, double angle) [which would need low-
> level display lib C, but that's ok]
>
> possibility for d.rast.arrow code simplification.
>
> I've had this in d.labels as a local fn for the last week or two to
> help with its label rotation code.
>
>
> maybe missing: any const needed in the fn prototype?? Happy to fix that,
> but no idea.
>
> It works on integer coords, as that's all I needed for the display and
> ps.map coords. It would be easy enough to add a version that takes
> doubles, but I had no need for that. If needed, perhaps make the int
> version a wrapper around the FP version. Don't know how much of a
> performance hit that would be-- d.vect for a vector map with 2 million
> points can hit D_symbol() pretty hard and take a while to run already..
>
>
> enjoy,
> Hamish
>
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