[NUT-devel] [nut]: r613 - docs/nutissues.txt

[Alban Bedel]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:20:37 +0000
Måns Rullgård <mans at mansr.com> wrote:

> >> >> Whatever the coordinate system, the location and orientation of
> >> >> the listener must be specified, even if there is only one
> >> >> logical choice.
> >> >
> >> > of course
> >> > right_position               s
> >> > forward_position             s
> >> > up_position                  s
> >> >
> >> > And
> >> > "the listener is at (0,0,0), (1,0,0) is right, (0,1,0) is
> >> > forward, (0,0,1) is up"
> >> 
> >> You're forgetting the measurement unit, i.e. metres, feet, etc.
> >
> > Hmm, I was thinking that only x/y, x/z that is the direction would
> > matter. If theres some sense in also storing distance then we would
> > need a 4th variable to specifiy the precission like:
> > (x/p, y/p, z/p) meter
> >
> > We can surely do this if someone thinks this is usefull.
> 
> I don't think it's useful, but there's no telling what people who
> measure the copper purity of their speaker cables might believe.

Too true :) However I doubt that real world units would be useful here.
Even if one want to make some adjustement to better match the playback
system, simply having the distances relative to one of the speaker
should be enouth.

	Albeu