Re: ZVG firmware / the future of ZVG

Man, Zonn, how'd you figure all this out without an engineering degree? I
know people WITH engineering degrees who couldn't have figured half of this
out!

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Zonn <mlists@zonn.com> wrote:

> I'm resending this because used the wrong email address, this might be a
> double post.
>
> -Zonn
>
>
> On 4/20/2012 2:24 AM, Clay Cowgill wrote:
>
>> I'm going to publish the math used to generate these timing
>>> tables, and the proper ending DAC values, along with the
>>> code. It's the most important part of the generator.
>>> Publishing the code without it wouldn't be that much more
>>> helpful than a binary image.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you or Neil, would like to look at it before I
>>> get the licensing worked out, and I'll send you the info.
>>>
>> Actually, that is exactly what I have been putting off doing for a while
>> now, so yeah-- I'd love to take a look at what you did because otherwise I
>> was going to be doing a lot of brute-forcing my way through things and
>> building big lookup tables and I was *not* looking forward to it. ;-) That
>> is *literally* the next thing I was going to work on. I'd run out of
>> other
>> stuff to check out and that was the last big 'to-do' item...
>>
>> (So, massive Thanks In Advance for any help there-- hit me at
>> c.cowgill@comcast.net whenever!)
>>
>>
>> A part of me wants to say: "Brute force? Yeah, good luck with that!" :-D
>
> But heck, if I'm not going to make anymore ZVG's, it's pointless not to
> publish the algorithms. It also shows prior art and keeps someone else
> from patenting the changes I made to the Cinematronics VG. (Not that anyone
> care's anymore about vector generators!)
>
> Here's a pointer to what I've been calling "The Vector Generator
> Manifesto":
>
> http://www.zektor.com/zvg/**downloads/vgMath.txt<http://www.zektor.com/zvg/downloads/vgMath.txt>
>
> It explains the algorithms, and the math behind the algorithms, used by
> the ZVG.
>
> Since I never did the college thing, and didn't take any math courses in
> High School, it probably shows my lack of math skills as well. On the other
> hand it may make it easier to read, by the non-math inclined among us.
>
> But whatever, the equations work, and they create endpoint perfect,
> constant speed vectors. Something the original Cinematronics design was
> incapable of doing.
>
> -Zonn
>
>
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