Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: What are the proper terms for these concepts? Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:57:32 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 20 Message-ID: <19622318.119.1331672252346.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbjh8> References: <31042512.49.1331663127457.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcsk1> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1331672351 9100 127.0.0.1 (13 Mar 2012 20:59:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:59:11 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 1851 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:12985 Daniel Pitts wrote: > Lew wrote: >> The term "bearing" comes to mind, and I recall "absolute" vs. "relative" - let me double check. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing_(navigation) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_bearing >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_bearing >> >> The term "bearing" matches what you want as the augend. The addend you want is "angle". >> >> So you add an angle to a bearing to get a new bearing. >> > Ah, that actually makes a lot of sense, and generally that matches the > use of the value. It is use for things such as the heading of a robot, > missile, or other simulated item. There's some code to model in Robocode: -- Lew