-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 27
Expand file tree
/
Copy pathrotation.html
More file actions
169 lines (129 loc) · 9.6 KB
/
Copy pathrotation.html
File metadata and controls
169 lines (129 loc) · 9.6 KB
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /><meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.18.1: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
<title>Rotation — VPython 3.2 documentation</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_static/pygments.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_static/alabaster.css" />
<script data-url_root="./" id="documentation_options" src="_static/documentation_options.js"></script>
<script src="_static/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="_static/underscore.js"></script>
<script src="_static/_sphinx_javascript_frameworks_compat.js"></script>
<script src="_static/doctools.js"></script>
<link rel="index" title="Index" href="genindex.html" />
<link rel="search" title="Search" href="search.html" />
<link rel="next" title="Text Output" href="textoutput.html" />
<link rel="prev" title="attach_light()" href="attach_light.html" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/custom.css" type="text/css" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=0.9, maximum-scale=0.9" />
</head><body>
<div class="document">
<div class="documentwrapper">
<div class="bodywrapper">
<div class="body" role="main">
<section id="rotation">
<h1>Rotation<a class="headerlink" href="#rotation" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="_images/rotated_box.png"><img alt="_images/rotated_box.png" src="_images/rotated_box.png" style="width: 150px;" /></a>
<section id="rotate-method">
<h2>rotate() method<a class="headerlink" href="#rotate-method" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Graphical objects may be rotated by invoking the <em>rotate()</em> method of the object:</p>
<dl class="py function">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="myobject.rotate">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">myobject.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">rotate</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">axis</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">vec(0,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">0)</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">angle</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">pi</span> <span class="pre">/</span> <span class="pre">3</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">origin</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">vec(0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0)</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#myobject.rotate" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Parameters<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>axis</strong> (<em>vector</em>) – The axis about which the object is to be rotated. Default is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">myobject.axis</span></code>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>angle</strong> (<em>scalar</em>) – The angle of rotation in radians, counterclockwise using a right-hand rule (thumb in direction of rotation axis, fingers curl in direction of rotation).</p></li>
<li><p><strong>origin</strong> (<em>vector</em>) – The rotation axis goes through the origin. Default is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">myobject.pos</span></code>.</p></li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>
</section>
<section id="rotate-function">
<h2>rotate() function<a class="headerlink" href="#rotate-function" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Alternatively, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rotate()</span></code> function works the same way:</p>
<dl class="py function">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="rotate">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">rotate</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">myobject</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">axis</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">vec(0,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">0)</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">angle</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">pi</span> <span class="pre">/</span> <span class="pre">3</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">origin</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">vec(0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0)</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#rotate" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Parameters<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>firstargument</strong> (<em>object</em>) – Object name.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>axis</strong> (<em>vector</em>) – The axis about which the object is to be rotated. Default is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">myobject.axis</span></code>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>angle</strong> (<em>scalar</em>) – The angle of rotation in radians, counterclockwise using a right-hand rule (thumb in direction of rotation axis, fingers curl in direction of rotation).</p></li>
<li><p><strong>origin</strong> (<em>vector</em>) – The rotation axis goes through the origin. Default is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">myobject.pos</span></code>.</p></li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>
<p>Vectors may also be rotated, see <a class="reference internal" href="vector.html"><span class="doc">vectors</span></a>.</p>
</section>
</section>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation">
<div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
<h1 class="logo"><a href="index.html">VPython</a></h1>
<h3>Navigation</h3>
<p class="caption" role="heading"><span class="caption-text">Contents:</span></p>
<ul class="current">
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="objects.html">3D Objects</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="rate.html">Animations</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="canvas.html">Canvases</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cameraAndLights.html">Camera and Lighting</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="colorOpacityGlow.html">Color/Opacity/Glow</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="makeshapes.html">Design New Objects</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="file.html">Files/Libraries</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="graph.html">Graphs</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="math.html">Math Functions</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="workwithobjects.html">Object Attachments</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1 current"><a class="current reference internal" href="#">Rotation</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#rotate-method">rotate() method</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#rotate-function">rotate() function</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="textoutput.html">Text output</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="texture.html">Textures</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="userinput.html">User Input</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="webvs7.html">VPython/WebVpython</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="license.html">VPython license</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="resources.html">Additional Resources</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="relations">
<h3>Related Topics</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Documentation overview</a><ul>
<li>Previous: <a href="attach_light.html" title="previous chapter">attach_light()</a></li>
<li>Next: <a href="textoutput.html" title="next chapter">Text Output</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search">
<h3 id="searchlabel">Quick search</h3>
<div class="searchformwrapper">
<form class="search" action="search.html" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q" aria-labelledby="searchlabel" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false"/>
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>
</div>
</div>
<script>document.getElementById('searchbox').style.display = "block"</script>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
©2023, Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood.
|
Powered by <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx 5.0.2</a>
& <a href="https://github.com/bitprophet/alabaster">Alabaster 0.7.12</a>
|
<a href="_sources/rotation.rst.txt"
rel="nofollow">Page source</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>