artificial horizon with the nxt

[DerSani]

Hello everyone,

I will try to make a artificial horizon, with a compass sensor and a acceleration sensor.

The horizon and the compass will be displayed on the NXT, so I am going to write some graphical classes for the NXT.

I plan to load the up, so maybe someone can add it to the project.

I start the project next week.

Greetings

DerSani

[gloomyandy]

Hi,
I'm not sure what graphical classes you need but leJOS already has a number of graphical methods (bitBllt, line/circle drawing, retangles, filled rects etc.), which you may want to use as the basis for whatever you do (particularly bitBlt which is pretty efficient at getting things on screen)...

Andy

[DerSani]

Oh, that's a good hint.

I looked at the API, but I didn't find anything. I think I do this not accurate enough.

Thanks a lot, I will have a second look into the docs.

DerSani

[gloomyandy]

Hi,
Try...
http://lejos.sourceforge.net/nxt/nxj/api/lejos/nxt/LCD.html
http://lejos.sourceforge.net/nxt/nxj/api/javax/microedition/lcdui/Graphics.html

All the best

Andy

[DerSani]

thx for the classes Andy, but I have new problem.

How I can draw polygons, I think about to manage that with the Image, first I write the stuff into an Image and than on the LCD.

The last step is no prob.

I tried to make an Image, but I don't know how to set the bits right.

Have anyone a hint or a link?

Thanks a lot

Sani

[gloomyandy]

Is there a reason why you can't just draw directly to the screen? The graphics class contains line drawing functions that you can use. I guess there are no easy ways to draw a filled polygon if that is what you are trying to do. I've just made some fairly major changes to the graphics functions (to among other things allow them to be used to draw to Images), but these changes are currently only available in the dev snapshot.

The actual Image format matches the layout used for the NXT LCD screen and is not very easy to use. You could write to it directly. A description of the layout is given in this link...
http://lejos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc ... iew=markup

However it is actually easier (and faster) to use the bitBlt function to draw a single pixel sized rectangle (the new code implements the drawing functions this way)....

Andy

[DerSani]

Hello,

sorry for my late posting , I had a bad flu.

Ok, I am not the fittest in this stuff, I only want to rotate an rectangle, how can I do this with the method?

My problem is, that I don't really understand the bitBlt-function.

Can you give me a short example for a given rectangle, please?

Greetz

Marcel

[DerSani]

I have found a way but I set every pixel, is there a easier way?

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public static final void paintHorizont(int angleH, int angleV) {
      
      angleH = makeClearAngles(angleH);
      angleV = makeClearAngles(angleV);
      
      double cos = Math.cos(angleV);
      double sin = Math.sin(angleV);
      int yPoint = 32;
      
      if (angleV % 90 != 0) {
         cos /= 10;
         sin /= 10;
      }
      
      if(angleH <= 270) {
         yPoint = 32 - (int) (angleH * 0.35);
      } else {
         yPoint = 160 - (int) (angleH * 0.35);
      }

      for (int x = 0; x <= LCD.SCREEN_WIDTH; x++) {
         for (int y = 0; y <= LCD.SCREEN_HEIGHT; y++) {
            int mapX = -49 + x;
            int mapY = -(yPoint) + y;
            int testY = (int) (mapX * sin + mapY * cos);
            if (testY >= 0 && testY < 64) {
               LCD.setPixel(1, x, y);
            }

         }
      }
   }


Greetz
DerSani

[gloomyandy]

Hi,
You will probably have to do something like that. You can use bitBlt to set a single pixel and do the clipping for you by using...


LCD.bitBlt(display, LCD.SCREEN_WIDTH, LCD.SCREEN_HEIGHT, 0, 0, display, LCD.SCREEN_WIDTH, LCD.SCREEN_HEIGHT, x, y, 1, 1, LCD.ROP_SET);

where display is the return value from LCD.getDisplay()

instead of...

if (testY >= 0 && testY < 64) {
LCD.setPixel(1, x, y);

This will set pixels to black, if you want to set them to white use ROP_CLEAR.

The native method is a little faster than accessing the display as an array (which is what the setPixel code uses)...

I have improved the leJOS graphics classes quite a bit (you can now use them with images, we have multiple fonts, load images from files etc.). But these are only available in the developer builds at the moment. You can see the code here...

http://lejos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc ... ion/lcdui/

Andy

[DerSani]

Hi,

thanks for your help gloomyandy, it works! I have namend you in the Credits, as a little tribute .

Greetz

Marcel