Well now that I have the technicalities (kind of) worked out, I had to think about how I would work out the viewing angles needed for my screen/window project. Sounds simple, eh? Below are a few drawings for the planning of my system.
As it turns out, I had forgotten a lot of what I had been taught in GCSE Maths, but I eventually got going and used my powers of substitution and diagram-drawing:
To see if the final equations worked, I created a Max patch to check the variable inputs for a 2-dimensional system. The full system will be the same, but with values for the y-axis as well.
Amazingly, the patch returns values that are believeable, but I will only know if it truly works when I get my homebrew Wii Sensorbar made up. I already have on my desk a Wiimote and I have downloaded the Max5 patch to get the data from it:
So expect to see some tech-tests uploaded soon!
Tags: max5, trigonometry