1 /**************************************************************************
2 * polar.cxx -- routines to deal with polar math and transformations
4 * Written by Curtis Olson, started June 1997.
6 * Copyright (C) 1997 Curtis L. Olson - curt@infoplane.com
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30 #include <Include/fg_constants.h>
32 #include "polar3d.hxx"
35 /* Convert a polar coordinate to a cartesian coordinate. Lon and Lat
36 * must be specified in radians. The FG convention is for distances
37 * to be specified in meters */
38 Point3D fgPolarToCart3d(const Point3D& p) {
42 tmp = cos( p.lat() ) * p.radius();
44 pnew.setvals( cos( p.lon() ) * tmp,
46 sin( p.lat() ) * p.radius() );
52 /* Convert a cartesian coordinate to polar coordinates (lon/lat
53 * specified in radians. Distances are specified in meters. */
54 Point3D fgCartToPolar3d(const Point3D& cp) {
57 pp.setvals( atan2( cp.y(), cp.x() ),
58 FG_PI_2 - atan2( sqrt(cp.x()*cp.x() + cp.y()*cp.y()), cp.z() ),
59 sqrt(cp.x()*cp.x() + cp.y()*cp.y() + cp.z()*cp.z()) );
61 /* printf("lon = %.2f lat = %.2f radius = %.2f\n",
62 pp.lon, pp.lat, pp.radius); */
68 /* Find the Altitude above the Ellipsoid (WGS84) given the Earth
69 * Centered Cartesian coordinate vector Distances are specified in
71 double fgGeodAltFromCart(const Point3D& cp)
73 double t_lat, x_alpha, mu_alpha;
74 double lat_geoc, radius;
77 lat_geoc = FG_PI_2 - atan2( sqrt(cp.x()*cp.x() + cp.y()*cp.y()), cp.z() );
78 radius = sqrt( cp.x()*cp.x() + cp.y()*cp.y() + cp.z()*cp.z() );
80 if( ( (FG_PI_2 - lat_geoc) < ONE_SECOND ) /* near North pole */
81 || ( (FG_PI_2 + lat_geoc) < ONE_SECOND ) ) /* near South pole */
83 result = radius - EQUATORIAL_RADIUS_M*E;
85 t_lat = tan(lat_geoc);
86 x_alpha = E*EQUATORIAL_RADIUS_M/sqrt(t_lat*t_lat + E*E);
87 mu_alpha = atan2(sqrt(RESQ_M - x_alpha*x_alpha),E*x_alpha);
89 mu_alpha = - mu_alpha;
91 result = (radius - x_alpha/cos(lat_geoc))*cos(mu_alpha - lat_geoc);
99 /* Revision 1.3 1998/10/16 00:50:29 curt
100 /* Added point3d.hxx to replace cheezy fgPoint3d struct.
102 * Revision 1.2 1998/08/24 20:04:11 curt
103 * Various "inline" code optimizations contributed by Norman Vine.
105 * Revision 1.1 1998/07/08 14:40:08 curt
106 * polar3d.[ch] renamed to polar3d.[ch]xx, vector.[ch] renamed to vector.[ch]xx
107 * Updated fg_geodesy comments to reflect that routines expect and produce
110 * Revision 1.2 1998/05/03 00:45:49 curt
111 * Commented out a debugging printf.
113 * Revision 1.1 1998/05/02 01:50:11 curt
114 * polar.[ch] renamed to polar3d.[ch]
116 * Revision 1.6 1998/04/25 22:06:23 curt
117 * Edited cvs log messages in source files ... bad bad bad!
119 * Revision 1.5 1998/01/27 00:48:00 curt
120 * Incorporated Paul Bleisch's <pbleisch@acm.org> new debug message
121 * system and commandline/config file processing code.
123 * Revision 1.4 1998/01/19 19:27:12 curt
124 * Merged in make system changes from Bob Kuehne <rpk@sgi.com>
125 * This should simplify things tremendously.
127 * Revision 1.3 1997/12/15 23:54:54 curt
128 * Add xgl wrappers for debugging.
129 * Generate terrain normals on the fly.
131 * Revision 1.2 1997/07/31 22:52:27 curt
132 * Working on redoing internal coordinate systems & scenery transformations.
134 * Revision 1.1 1997/07/07 21:02:36 curt