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Need Scaling Help

Anonymous 10 years ago • 0
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matthewfrazier wrote at 2010-10-12 17:23:

I'm trying to create a simple tube which I can do fine using this wonderful toolkit.  What I'm having a problem with is perspective or scaling.  Using the given array list of xyz coordinates I draw my tube BUT I can't make it "look right" in my view. I tried dividing by 1000 but that obviously just keeps the same problem just on a smaller scale.  My issue is that my z coordinate is always going to be much larger than my xy.   I want to create a tubing path for my users to view so they can see the deviation of the tubing.  I can do this with a simple xyz scatter plot in winforms but I want to be able to have the 3D camera control in WPF to give the users more perspective.  Any ideas?

private void LoadArrayList()
        {
            _x = new ArrayList() { 0, 1.31, 2.71, 3.06, 3.48, 4.69, 6.8, 9.51, 12.37, 15.75, 19.65, 23.76, 30.21, 38.89, 47.77, 56.81, 69.86, 78.23, 86.62, 96.26, 107.4, 117.4, 125.63, 133.91, 142.02, 148.47, 152.32 };
            _y = new ArrayList() { 0, 4.76, 7.19, 6.56, 6.76, 8.31, 11.66, 16.48, 22.3, 29.07, 36.08, 43.1, 54.16, 69.78, 85.66, 101.81, 124.95, 140.06, 154.96, 169.97, 185.11, 198.52, 210.58, 222.8, 235.48, 245.87, 251.77 };
            _z = new ArrayList() { 0, -463.96, -775.94, -901.94, -964.94, -1027.91, -1091.78, -1155.54, -1217.2, -1279.74, -1342.23, -1404.7, -1497.83, -1622.55, -1747.23, -1872.88, -2060, -2184.81, -2309.64, -2434.37, -2558.96, -2683.84, -2808.99, -2934.12, -3059.22, -3161.49, -3221.08 };
        }

        private void BuildTube()
        {
            var pc = new Point3DCollection();
            for (int i = 0; i < (_x.Count); i++)
            {
                pc.Add(new Point3D((Convert.ToDouble(_x[i]) / 1000.00) * 5, (Convert.ToDouble(_y[i]) / 1000.00) * 5, (Convert.ToDouble(_z[i]) / 1000.00) * 5));
            }
            tube.Path = pc;
        }

objo wrote at 2010-10-13 08:09:

can you change only the scale of the z-coordinates?

  var _x = new List<double> { 0, 1.31, 2.71, 3.06, 3.48, 4.69, 6.8, 9.51, 12.37, 15.75, 19.65, 23.76, 30.21, 38.89, 47.77, 56.81, 69.86, 78.23, 86.62, 96.26, 107.4, 117.4, 125.63, 133.91, 142.02, 148.47, 152.32 };
  var _y = new List<double> { 0, 4.76, 7.19, 6.56, 6.76, 8.31, 11.66, 16.48, 22.3, 29.07, 36.08, 43.1, 54.16, 69.78, 85.66, 101.81, 124.95, 140.06, 154.96, 169.97, 185.11, 198.52, 210.58, 222.8, 235.48, 245.87, 251.77 };
  var _z = new List<double> { 0, -463.96, -775.94, -901.94, -964.94, -1027.91, -1091.78, -1155.54, -1217.2, -1279.74, -1342.23, -1404.7, -1497.83, -1622.55, -1747.23, -1872.88, -2060, -2184.81, -2309.64, -2434.37, -2558.96, -2683.84, -2808.99, -2934.12, -3059.22, -3161.49, -3221.08 };
        
  var pc = new Point3DCollection();
  for (int i = 0; i < (_x.Count); i++)
            {
                pc.Add(new Point3D(_x[i], _y[i], _z[i]*0.01));
            }
  tube.IsPathClosed = false;
  tube.Path = pc;
Note that you should interpolate your data to get a smooth tube where there are sharp bends - the tube code is currently only extruding a circle along the given data.  

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