[ODE] XODE - should angles be in degrees or radians?

[Shaul Kedem]

+ you can always write an XSLT which converts one into
the other, it's pretty simple.

--- William Denniss <lists at omegadelta.net> wrote:
> radians it is then, 5 to 2.  
> 
> I understand degrees can be more human readable -
> but since ODE works in
> radians it does make more sense that XODE use them.
> 
> Thank you for your thoughts!
> 
> Any other issues to raise before I update it again?
> 
> Will.
> 
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 07:29, Megan Fox wrote:
> > I've no idea if I'll use the file format, and my
> understanding of radians is
> > thin at best (am I defective for still thinking in
> terms of eulers?), but
> > just about everything I do requires conversion of
> my simplified eulers to
> > radians if I want it to be useful.
> > 
> > I definately vote radians.  The only place eulers
> are useful are in cases of
> > incredibly basic single-axis rotation.
> > 
> > -Megan Fox
> > 
> > > > I completely agree that it should be one or
> the other. Can't believe I'm
> > > > one of the few supporting radians though! Not
> trying to start an angle
> > > > measure flame war here :) but I vote for
> radians, for
> > > > two reasons: 1) it's what mathematicians and
> physicists use as
> > > the measure
> > > > of angle, and 2) more importantly, it's what
> ODE uses (precisely because
> > > > of
> > > > reason 1).
> > > I agree. I vote for radians to :-)
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