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Old 12-16-10, 04:35 PM   #5437
PL_Andrev
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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith View Post
The angle I'd be displaying is tan-1(z distance/ fixed length y). The only variable is z distance and that is changed by moving the line up and down on the screen. We make the fixed length y a unit vector (value of 1). z distance would be measured in screen pixels. In essence this would be like using the real sextant Or am I totally hosed in my thinking here
You are genius - you gave me extra idea (obs periscope used):



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