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Re: Display radar data? [message #62864 is a reply to message #62861]

Wed, 08 October 2008 08:35

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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pgrigis@gmail.com writes:

> While I am sure that this strategy would work, that will be depriving
> the original
> poster of the joy of figuring out how to convert polar coordinates in
> a plane tangent
> to a sphere at a given point to spherical coordinates. Now, that's a
> beautiful
> geometry problem, isn't it?

It's beautiful, alright. But if your plane geometry texts
have been sitting on your shelf gathering dust, as mine
have, for the past 30+ years, it's easier to just call
the Young Genius away at college and let him figure it
out for you. :-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Display radar data? By: Dave[4] on Thu, 09 October 2008 00:40
		Re: Display radar data? By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 October 2008 07:59
		Re: Display radar data? By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 October 2008 06:41
		Re: Display radar data? By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 October 2008 08:35
		Re: Display radar data? By: pgrigis on Wed, 08 October 2008 08:33
		Re: Display radar data? By: pgrigis on Wed, 08 October 2008 08:13
		Re: Display radar data? By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 October 2008 07:32

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