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Old 08-27-10, 06:12 AM   #12
Diopos
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Originally Posted by Pisces View Post
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Solving something graphically is perfectly acceptable. But the drawing tools can induce major inaccuracy in certain situations. Like in this case, two relative bearings that are close together. The point where they cross could be a very slender 'X'. This would lead to a wildly changing intercept angle (W).
Yeap, that is a limitation of many graphical methods, more so with SH4's nav tools. The only way to eliminate the effect is to allow the data points to "spread out" a bit (more points and/or larger "sampling" intervals). I'm certain that this would be a problem in RL nav plotting work, too.

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