vectors", represented by unit quaternions. This permits me to add
circles, where the normal defines the plane of the circle.
Still many things painful. The interface for editing normals is not
so intuitive, and it's not yet clear how I would e.g. export a
circle entity and recreate it properly, since that entity has a
param not associated with a normal or point.
And the transformed points/normals do not yet support rotations.
That will be necessary soon.
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the point that's being dragged first, to guarantee that that one
gets the max possible degrees of freedom. The sort code (sort a
list of integers, then apply the permutations by swaps) was more
painful than it should have been.
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turned out straightforward, in great part because the planes are
workplanes (6 DOF, represented by a unit quaternion and a point),
and therefore make it easy to get a vector in the plane, as well as
a normal.
And on that subject, replace the previous hack for parallel vector
constraints with a better hack: pivot on the initial numerical
guess, to choose which components of the cross product to drive to
zero. Ugly, but I think that will be as robust as I can get.
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or taking partials (constant folding). Also keep a little hash
table to mark with params are used in each equation, in order to
quickly discard trivial partial derivatives. This is solving a
64x64 system in <20 ms. I suspect this is now much faster than
Sketchflat.
Slightly fake situation, though, since substitution solver has not
yet been written, and no partitioning. I'll do those next.
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not have much motivation behind them, but they seem to work. And
make sure that we don't solve multiple times without repainting in
between, and tweak the text window a bit more.
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erased before redraw, which caused a bit of flicker on show. And
hide debug prints in solver.
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other entities. This requires a new point type, for a point that's
defined as a transformation of some other point. All works nicely,
I think. There's ugliness because entities are no longer guaranteed
to have a parent request.
Also speed up display of the text window, by caching brushes
instead of recreating for each character (!), and add a bit more
user interface in the text window.
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workplane: a free constraint works in three-space (e.g. true
distance), and a constraint in a workplane works in that plane
(e.g. projected distance). And make the solver go automatically,
though solver itself has lots of pieces missing.
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and point-in-plane. These work, but the equation is still stupid,
solving everything at once and not substituting trivial equations.
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take the partial derivatives, and run the Newton's method. This
seems to sort of work with a single distance constraint.
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Jonathan Westhues