spherical coordinates

[Bram Stolk]

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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:06:49 GMT
"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg at austin.rr._bogus_.com> wrote:


> 
> I can imagine that all these conversions could be a performance killer if
> done entirely in Python, and could stand to be done as a C extension.  This
> is probably why the OP was asking if such a package already exists.
> 

Well, performance is not my first concern.
I just want encapsulated classes for convenience, that handle all
sorts of spherical coordinate specifics.

For instance... interpolation between spherical coordinates. You can avoid
going to/from cartesian if you properly handle the wrap-around at 180 and 360
degrees.

Also, I want to be able to recursively subdivide the theta,phy space, and
do stratification in theta,phy space, and al sorts of other operations, on 
the surface of a given sphere.

An encapsulating class for these kind of coordinates would be a help, I
thought.

  Bram

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