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Basically, I want to calculate the tragectory where a puck will stop as the puck slides straight along the floor of the world behind the window. The location the puck stops being relative to where I am pointing at on the window.
I think I'm getting closer to the solution, I'm now at:
y = touch.y; y = 640.0 - y;
z = (y * ((y + 500) / 500)) * ?;
x = touch.x; x = x * ((z + 500) / 500);
y = 640.0;
I removed all the offsets for the window position I had on there to make the current formula I'm using a little more clearer. They'll be put back after I figure out the solution for ?. -
Sorry for the constant edits. My brain has gone to mush trying to figure this out. I'm done now.
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I'm working on a 3D project, and I'm stuck for a solution to a problem.
In a 3D world you draw with the following formula:
x = x - window.x; x = x * 500 / (z + 500);
y = y - window.y; y = y * 500 / (z + 500);
window.x,y being the current view point of the world (0.0, 500.0).
If you touch the window viewing the world at an touch.x, touch.y point, and a puck slides straight ahead in a z path directly under the touch.x along a plane with a y of 640.0. How do you calculate where the puck will be when it meets the point of your touch?
I figured out calculating for x and y was easily done with the following formula:
x = touch.x - window.x; x = ((x - window.x) * ((z + 500) / 500)) + window.x; //This will keep x in line no matter the distance of z.
y = 640.0; //As the puck is sliding along the ground at a plane of 640.0.
The only thing, I'm missing is the calculation for the distance the puck must travel ahead (z) before it touches the height the finger is pointing (touch.y). I just can't figure it out...ugh.
I got this far in the solution:
y = touch.y + (window.y - 500); z = ?;
x = touch.x - window.x; x = ((x - window.x) * ((z + 500) / 500)) + window.x;
y = 640.0;
Arcanaville...anyone. Please help! -
Quote:That's Irene Adler. Sherlock Holmes never ends up with her in the stories though its obvious she remains in his mind as she's mentioned many times in the books. The reason probably is cause she's the only person to have ever beaten him in his own game, the movie gave another reason why.Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
... Sherlock's "love interest" (forgot her name
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That's Sebastian Moran and he's not just any hired gun. He is important to what would follow up after the movie, hence the reason.Quote:Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
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Sweet, great tip! Finally, have the font I was missing for my project. Thanks!
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Quote:It wasn't a millitary base of any type (heck they used an American Helicopter pilot), so it's unlikely it was a Government facility. Research facilities aren't typically run by Governments. Sure they may help fund it through grants or even set it up, but typically research facilities are either self run by the researchers commisioned for some evironmental study or supported by a private company or college. In the movie, the scientists there weren't originally looking for alien remains so their Government involvement on their findings would be dependent on how much they wanted to share with them about their findings, in most movies and in real life, researchers aren't typically willing to do that so easily.Originally Posted by New_Dark_Age
Understandable but wasn't the Norweign base in the THING a facility controlled by the Norweign government? To my knowledge it was not a company. What company would seek profits in Anarctica?
So if it was a governmental facility , the Norweigns hiring an American scientist to study alien remains they want kept secret is equivalent to Americans hiring a Norweign scientist to study the suspected alien remains at Roswell , New Mexico and then letting the scientist return to Norway when they want the discovery hidden from the public. The Norweign is not bound by American law.
If the directors had any boldness the film should have been in Norweign but I guess the moronic populace does not want to suffer the agony of reading subtitles. The American scientists was just an excuse to put an American in the movie and have the movie in English. America after all is the center of the world..according to the wise American population. -
Quote:Cause it happens in real life. Companies hire the best person for the job no matter where they are. Just last year, a Norwegian company had commissioned my brother to oversee the opening of their stores all over the world (and no he isn't white). He ended up traveling to several locations around world staying at each location for a month or two including Norway. I'm pretty sure they could have found someone in Norway to do it, but they wanted him.Originally Posted by New_Dark_Age
Being fictional is not the problem...being irrational, silly and emasculate is. I have an imagination and can , for example, go along with the story in the THING 2011 about an alien crashing thousands of years ago in Anarctica. What I cannot go along with is the fact that these Norweigns, who according to the movie wanted to keep the alien discovery a secret, would travel to the USA and hire an American scientist rather than someone from Norway.
Besides, its not like hiring from America or even coming here means the US Government knows automatically what is going on. -
Quote:Basically, the comics started to show less and less of Blaze and more of the Rider. The generally Blaze would only be in maybe one page of a book if at all. I always tripped over how people were so hung up on Nick Cage playing him, concidering Blaze was pretty much a non-entity in the Ghost Rider books. And the pages he was on, he displayed zero personallity was basically there to a set up for the Rider's appearance.Originally Posted by Nericus
In the 70's Ghost Rider series, Blaze at first would automatically transform at night whether he wanted to or not. Then as the devil kept tormenting him, his powers would change so that he would auto-transform in the presence of "Evil" whether it was day or night. Soon after Blaze "Beat the devil" or at least thought he did for the rest of that series he quickly learned that he could transform at will into the Rider at any time. Eventually though the demon within him kept getting stronger and stronger and control was fading to the point where the Rider could force the transformation, but then so could Blaze.
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I really like how Moriarty and Sebastian Moran were both equals to Holmes and Watson in every way. They truly deserved their titles of first and second most dangerous men in London they recieved from the stories. Not many movies play villains this way. Stephen Fry also played an excellant Mycroft! I loved the movie, and my only critique was the big reveal was not as impactful as in the first one.
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Quote:I think Arthur Conan Doyle would have made a horrible action movie director. For instance, the final fight at Reichenbach Falls was a lackluster yawnfest in comparison to the movie version.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
The most humorous and recent example being the people who believe that the current Sherlock Holmes movies does a disservice to the character not as written but as portrayed in earlier movies.
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Quote:I'm assuming with all the female influences Wonder Woman's son is going to have, he'd probably end up fabulous...or at least well dressed.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Wonder Woman's son is going to have an entire island of "aunts" who hate men while at the same time all his male friends in school want to spend all their free time over to his house to ogle his mom.
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Quote:I don't know about saving him. General Hawk was already in the first movie, played by Dennis Quaid.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
Maybe General Hawk will be saved for the third movie?
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Quote:To be fair, that ice had a lot of metal in it.Originally Posted by Little_Tank_Girl
Also: SINKING ICE!
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I want Willis to say at least once in the movie "And knowing is half the battle!"
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Quote:Cause movies have to make sense.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Well that's how things work in the real world so why not in the movies.
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Quote:I remember lusting after D'abo in the Conan movie (actually in the Conan posters released before the movie was), but I don't feel bad about it since I was 15 myself at the time.Originally Posted by Lothic
If you feel guilty about lusting after her in the Conan movie you could always switch to the Star Trek episode because I think she might have actually been an adult at that point.
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Quote:Can't be a space probe...those are always near Uranus.Originally Posted by GreenFIame
it could be a Space Probe.
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Looking a the video, I was about to exclaim "That can't be Mercury!" but in all caps cause I was that excited. Then I found this link, then realized "Oh I see, that was Mercury" but in all lowercase due to embarassment by my initial reaction.
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Quote:Hmmmm...of all the ones on your list, the only ones I haven't seen nor own are:Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
I think I added all the suggestions so far to the list on the second post and numbered them.
Superman and the Mole Men (1951)
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)
Jake Speed (1986)
The Medallion (2003)
Super Capers (2009)
Vs (2011)
Casshern
I think, my geek card is secure.
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The poster I had created of my CoH Main Vectorman is hanging up at SEGA for the next week as part of an art show.
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Quote:Pssh...bathrobes don't warm my legs.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Then you're going to love this invention!!
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Quote:So like R. Kelly then.Originally Posted by Lycanus
Zeus never really cared what the woman was interested in.
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I going with from top left to right:
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Doctor (Colin Baker), Ace McShane, The Doctor (Peter Davidson)
The Doctor (Jon Pertwee), Sarah Jane Smith, Melanie Bush, The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston), The Doctor (Paul Mcgann)
Rose Tyler, The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), The Doctor (Tom Baker), Romana II, Jamie McCrimmon
Adric, The Doctor (William Hartenell), The Doctor (David Tennant), The Doctor (Matt Smith), River Song, Captain Jack Harkness, and The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) -
Quote:Just what was Danaë into for that to work.Originally Posted by Dark One
Showing up as...golden rain = acceptable
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What's interesting is if you click the Deadline link which they had "gotten" the quote from, the line reads quite differently.
Quote:Originally Posted by DeadlineThe storyline begins on Earth after a devastating alien attack, when gifted children are recruited by a government desperate to fight back. The kids train to fight the seemingly invincible, ruthless aliens on a hyper-realistic spaceflight/combat simulator referred to as the game. A young boy emerges as a genius strategist and the planets best hope to destroy the alien Formic race.