hi, every destination angle is also (angle - 360), then you just compare the absolute values, if it is shorter to go from 10 to 270 (which is 260 degrees) or 10 to -90 (which is -100). useful objects might be "abs", "mod", <, >, <=... and maybe you will also need "moses" or min/max for handling the line object.. marius.

----- Original Message ----- From: bbogart@ryerson.ca To: pd-dev@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 3:27 AM Subject: [PD-dev] Circular Line object?

Hello all,

I'm working with a lot of angles in my current project (0-360degrees where

0 is the same point as 360)

I want to tween between one angle and another. If my initial angle is 10

degrees, my desination angle is 270 degress. I want an object which will take the shortest route around the circle to tween to the desination angle. If I use "line" I have my angle go from 0-90-180-270 Clock wise when I want it to go 10-0-270 Counter clockwise. The line object does work, but only when the angles differ by less than 180 degrees. So the question is how do I make a patch which tweens the angle by the shortnest distance?

Any help would would be appreciated.

In case your hoping I'm not talking about a rotating object so I can't

just use a negative rotation angle.

Thanks Ben

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