Turbo-Silver 3.0
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Just goes to show you how goofy we are, after spending all that money on design
and 4 color printing, and not permanently afixing it to the binder. Oh
Well…..
Stan
Off on another subject (kinda')… I'm confused… in Turbo Silver, the 'y'
coordinate goes 'in/out' of the screen (depth) and the 'z' coordinate goes
'up/down' (height). I've always heard it the other way around… am I
missing something?
Keith – That's perhaps caused the most points of contention about our
program since we first introduced it! The truth of the matter is that we
are correct…… but so are you!. On an international basis most text
and reference materials list the correct coords with "Y" as the depth
coordinate. U.S. systems though over the last few years have adopted the
"Z" coordinate for depth. All of our products are designed to operate
equally on either side on the "pond". The reference books we were using
when originally designing Silver were absolutely 50/50 on the coords
systems used. So we ended up flipping a coin. So ends the saga of why we
are using the "wrong" coords system. (our initial rreference material by
the way, were from The University of Minnesota, ACM/SIGGRAPH, IEE Graphics
SOciety and others.)
AH… when I first read the manual, I thought it was a typo… but then
ther (there) were more and more of these 'typos' and when I finally ran the
program (when I got back from vacation) I realized that TS actually used
that coordinate system. It's had me puzzled (and goofs me up at times… I
have to 'think' about it 8). Thanks for the explanation. I knew it
couldn't have just been an oversight <grin> – Keith
When we first started getting calls about it we thought about changing the
names to UP/Down In/Out Right/Left, but that became a was when we added the
ability to have local/world axis' and heierachical grouping. <–Stan
Stan — btw, where is the serial number on 3.0? –Eet–
Jim – Upgrades don't get a new serial number. Only the new folks. We
should be able to do the hookup at at the end of the week. <==Stan