HoloDraw Program Documentation: vecdraw

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Program Summary

Filename vecdraw.pl
Author Marvin Simkin
Program Created 2003-03-10
Last Updated Jan 28 13:06
Purpose draw vectors
syntax vecdraw.pl [length] < vector.asc | drawiv.pl
length length can appear in data or on command line or default is 1
vector.asc see input format below
drawiv.pl program to create VRML 1.0 from this program's output

Discussion

This will read data in ASCII format and output line instructions
that drawiv.pl can turn into a VRML 1.0 world.


Input format examples:
    138.138    35.0932  0. 25
    135.893    33.8627  0. -69
    138.517    34.9871  0. 4
    138.138    35.0932  0. -33
    135.893    33.8627  0. 81
    137.885    34.9078  0. -32
    137.885    34.9078  0. -59
    135.573    34.8603  0. 48
    140.855    35.7022  0. 19
    134.458    34.0572  0. 55

This represents the X Y and Z location of a starting point,
followed by a direction (in DEGREES) in which a line should be drawn.
The length of the line could appear in an optional 5th column,
or on the command line, or default to 1.


Output data format:
line:X1 Y1 Z1,X2 Y2 Z2



Written by Marvin Simkin
Filename vecdraw.html
Last updated April 5, 2005
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