Quoting Trent Buck <trentbuck@...155...>:
OK, what I really mean is that 2 units = one complete circle is a lot easier on the brain than 360 units = one complete circle. I guess 1 unit = one complete circle would be even easier...
You meant pi radians then. There are 2*pi ~= 6.283185 radians in a circle. Straight radians are not a human-friendly unit of measurement at all.
I still think degrees are a substantialy nicer unit for humans to work with casually/artistically since 360 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, etc... without needing to resort to decimal approximations.
Let's say you're manually messing with a honeycombish pattern. Do you prefer thinking of:
- 120 degrees? _ - 0.66666666 pi radians?
- 4.188790204786... radians?
The Sumerians knew what they were doing, basically.
-mental