/* -*- C++ -*- ------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c) 2007 Jesse Anders and Demian Nave http://cmldev.net/ The Configurable Math Library (CML) is distributed under the terms of the Boost Software License, v1.0 (see cml/LICENSE for details). *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /** @file * @brief */ #ifndef vector_angle_h #define vector_angle_h #include /* Functions for finding the signed and unsigned angles between vectors in * 3D and 2D. * * Note that the input vectors for these functions are not required to be * unit length. * * @todo: Clean up promotions, conversions, and return types. */ namespace cml { /** Signed angle between two 3D vectors. */ template< class VecT_1, class VecT_2, class VecT_3 > typename detail::DotPromote< typename detail::CrossPromote::promoted_vector, VecT_3 >::promoted_scalar signed_angle(const VecT_1& v1, const VecT_2& v2, const VecT_3& reference) { typedef typename detail::CrossPromote::promoted_vector vector_type; typedef typename detail::DotPromote::promoted_scalar value_type; vector_type c = cross(v1,v2); value_type angle = std::atan2(double(length(c)),double(dot(v1,v2))); return dot(c,reference) < value_type(0) ? -angle : angle; } /** Unsigned angle between two 3D vectors. */ template< class VecT_1, class VecT_2 > typename detail::DotPromote< VecT_1, VecT_2 >::promoted_scalar unsigned_angle(const VecT_1& v1, const VecT_2& v2) { return std::atan2(double(length(cross(v1,v2))),double(dot(v1,v2))); } /** Signed angle between two 2D vectors. */ template< class VecT_1, class VecT_2 > typename detail::DotPromote< VecT_1, VecT_2 >::promoted_scalar signed_angle_2D(const VecT_1& v1, const VecT_2& v2) { return std::atan2(double(perp_dot(v1,v2)),double(dot(v1,v2))); } /** Unsigned angle between two 2D vectors. */ template< class VecT_1, class VecT_2 > typename detail::DotPromote< VecT_1, VecT_2 >::promoted_scalar unsigned_angle_2D(const VecT_1& v1, const VecT_2& v2) { return std::fabs(signed_angle_2D(v1,v2)); } } // namespace cml #endif