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centr of rotation/centering

by Luc Moulinier <moumou@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jul 21, 2008 at 06:07 AM

Hi !

I'm new to OpenGL, and even after reading tutorials ans manuals, I
still get some troubles.
I'm doing a simple molecular viewer. For simplicity, let's say a
molecules are each a cloud of points, whose centers are not at 0.0 0.0
0.0.
I'd like to rotate it , translate it, and center on any atom, using
the mouse.

1) Rotations: by dragging mouse button-1 , the user rotates around the
x and y axis. X is always horizontal, and Y is always vertical,
whatever the rotation. This works well. Tcl/Tk code of the event
binded routine :

proc Handl***** {x y win} {
         global cx cy

	set mvmatrix [tcl3dVector GLdouble 16]
	glGetDoublev GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX $mvmatrix
	set mvList   [tcl3dVectorToList $mvmatrix 16]

	glMatrixMode GL_MODELVIEW
	glRotatef $dy [lindex $mvList 0] [lindex $mvList 4] [lindex $mvList
8]

	glGetDoublev GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX $mvmatrix
	set mvList   [tcl3dVectorToList $mvmatrix 16]
	glRotatef $dx [lindex $mvList 1] [lindex $mvList 5] [lindex $mvList
9]

	set cx $x
	set cy $y

	$win postredisplay
       return
}

2) Translation : I can translate the objects, but when I apply a
rotation, the rotation center is the old rotation center. I 'd like
the rotation center to stay always the center of the scene, and
objects spinning depending on translation.

3) centering: I handle picking and labelling of atoms using NameLists.
I didn't succeed to define the center at the X,Y,Z of the picked
point.

I'm aware there is the gluLookAt function, but How do I retrieve the
eye position ? I don't use gluLookAt at present in my app, so I don't
know if the "eye" position has moved or not, or if it is still at 0.0
0.0 0.0

I would be very gratfull to anybody who could help me !!

Luc
 




 2 Posts in Topic:
centr of rotation/centering
Luc Moulinier <moumou@  2008-07-21 06:07:08 
Re: centr of rotation/centering
Ken <ken@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-07-22 13:17:32 

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