tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 15 22:49:16 1994
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Re: the verb "taH"
- From: Mark Reed <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: the verb "taH"
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 11:47:33 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Teodoro Gelabert" at Feb 16, 94 09:23:19 am
\ Coordinates are supplied as locations on an X,Y,Z grid (with the
\center of the galaxy being 0,0,0. Bearings are supplied as a point on two
\circles. One around the horizontal plane of the the ship and the other around
\the vertical plane of the ship (the vert. is said first and the horiz. is
\the mark degree).
To be more precise, the first angle is measured around a circle in the ship's
horizontal plane; the second angle is measured around a *semicircle* in
the plane perpendicular to the horizontal plane and interesecting it
*along the first angle*. The range of valid second angles is -90 to +90,
or 180-360;0-90 in the TNG nomenclature. This is pretty standard spherical
co-ordinate stuff.
In any case, negative angles are quite appropriate; it makes just as much
sense (and perhaps more) to say that something "below" you in space is at
0 mark -90 as it does to say it's at 0 mark 270.
-marqoS