I am working on a small program to allow users to type in lines of text and produce a .thr file of their message - for Birthdays, Greetings and the like. I've digitized a cursive alphabet and started printing messages on the table.
My Question is this - why does the table mirror output on the X axis (doing a Cartesian translation of the polar .thr file)? The letters are reversed. I've only noticed this since most of my previous submissions were symmetric objects and the mirroring was not apparent. I just mirror the Cartesian file on the X axis and it looks "normal". But is this just how the table software works?
It's probably just interpreting theta reverse to what you thought, which I think would also mirror the X axis.
That may be the answer - the more that I work on programming the table the more "quirks" I recognize in the software. Most people develop geometric based files where mirroring doesn't matter - but trying to create images are quite a different matter. I have written software that takes an x,y based image and converts it into the dialect of polar that the table speaks and just realized there was a reversal.
just my notes of the tables polar preferences vs the Cartesian equivalent
1) quadrants are different - for the normal 1,2,3,4 in Cartesian , the table "sees" 2,3,4,1 for the image - just a Pi/2 rotation fixes that.
2) The table is exquisitely sensitive to the value of Pi when you cross the 0 angle line clockwise or counterclockwise , otherwise it "jumps" in movement
3) The 0,0 area is problematic area for drawing - best to avoid or use tiny tiny increments when near it.
4) there is an x axis reversal of a Cartesian image by the table (when you translate the .thr file back to Cartesian you see an x axis reversed image actually drawn on the table)
5) When working from a Cartesian point base, the equivalent rho point must always be checked so it never exceeds 1
Anyway - I made an image and ran 4 cases - no flip, x axis flip, y axis flip and both axis flip. X gets mirrored and Y is the same as the Cartesian equivalent. One more thing to add to the software to compensate.
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