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untelon
03-04-2009, 01:58 AM
I am trying to obtain an angle in degrees.

I have the hypotenuse and the adjacent lengths, so I use cosine to obtain the angle but get different degrees in Maya versus my calc. (my calc. is correct, so something is missing from my Maya code).

Example:

float $hypotenuse = 25.110;
float $adjacent = 24.377;
print(rad_to_deg(cos($adjacent / $hypotenuse)));

I get 32.351

I should get 13.88 (http://www.easycalculation.com/trigonometry/triangle-angles.php)

What gives?

Here's something interesting as well:

print(cosd(13.88));
// Result: 0.9708

print(rad_to_deg(cos(.9708)));
// Result: 32.351


Somebody enlighten me please.
bduncan
03-04-2009, 03:43 AM
You have it a little mixed up.

($adjacent / $hypotenuse) is equal to the cosine of the angle,
in other words:
float $cosA = $adjacent / $hypotenuse;

To get the angle from the cosine, you use the acos function.

print(rad_to_deg(acos($adjacent / $hypotenuse)));
// Result: 13.87805 //
dbiggs
03-04-2009, 03:44 AM
you need acos, not cos. :)
untelon
03-04-2009, 05:48 PM
I am much grateful; nonetheless, minutely embarrassed. Thank you much.
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