[ODE] fixing terminology?
Bram Stolk
bram at sara.nl
Fri Mar 17 07:13:43 MST 2006
Hi there,
Just checked out the svn trunk, and it builds just fine for me.
I have a bold proposal, don't flame me too hard :-)
As we are currently doing some overhauling (svn repo, thinking
about redoing docs, ODE_API prefixs, premake, etc), what if we
included another major change:
Rename "CCylinder" to "Capsule".
The reasons for this are:
1) Capsule is the proper math term, see Wolfram mathworld
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Capsule.html
2) Capped Cylinder is confusing.
In the ray-tracing world, a Capped Cylinder usually means
a cylinder that is not infinite, with discs (not hemispheres)
at the ends. This corresponds to the ODE Cylinder class,
not CCylinder class.
It may be a bit too far, but I'm curious:
is this a good or bad idea?
Bram
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