[ODE] fixing terminology?

[LR]

I think it should be a good idea.

In the simulator environment i'm doing, i called caped cylinder CAPSULE ....

Laurent.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org] De la part de Bram
Stolk
Envoyé : vendredi 17 mars 2006 15:14
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Objet : [ODE] fixing terminology?

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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