Quoting bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...>:
On 9/8/05, mental@...32... <mental@...32...> wrote:
Also, why make it a pref? Nearly all end users are going to be thinking in terms of angles in the "compass" sense.
Why do you think so? In trigonometry, angles are measured exactly as we do (0 at east, counterclockwise, +/- range). That's what atan() returns, for example. So for me at least, this was much more intuitive than compass.
I think you may have been spending too much time down here in programmer-land. ^_-
Seriously, ask a roomfull of graphic designers which makes more sense... I bet they will say 0 at north, positive angles clockwise.
[ they'd probably like +/- range, though ]
I don't think you would propose displaying angles as multiples of PI (e.g. 180 degrees = 1 pi), would you? Yet what atan() returns is radians, also proper to trigonometry.
-mental