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29 Jul 2024 18:28:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Embarrasing Trig Question  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 1 Jul 2001 19:55:19
Message: <3B3FB78C.DF0C73F1@hotmail.com>
Ron Parker wrote:
>...
> You want atan2(vlength(vcross(A-B,C-B)),vdot(A-B,C-B)).

Yes, that's one way of doing it.


He could also try this:
acos(vdot(vnormalize(A-B),vnormalize(C-B)))

or even:
asin(vlength(vcross(vnormalize(A-B),vnormalize(C-B))))

But I would suspect POV to parse your expression faster.
Is this true Ron ?


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