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- Short: Generate fixed point sine/cosine/hybrid lookup tables
- Author: Duane McDonnell <tachyon@tolstoi.saccii.net.au>
- Uploader: Duane McDonnell <tachyon@tolstoi.saccii.net.au>
- Type: dev/asm
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- INTRODUCTION
-
- Generate sine, cosine and sine/cosine hybrid LUTs for use in game/demo
- code (particularly 3D programming). This might be useful for coders who
- use fixed point math for calculations rather than FPU instructions.
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- USAGE
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- Here's a quick run-down of the main options:
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- Table types:
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- Sine Generates sine tables from 0..360 deg (0..2pi rad)
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- Cosine Generates cosine tables from 0..360 deg (0..2pi rad)
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- Hybrid Generates a sine table followed by a cosine table to save
- memory. Since sine and cosine are 90 deg (pi/2 rad) out
- of phase you don't need two full-size tables.
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- Table data size: Byte, Word, Longword.
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- Amplitude scaling factor: The factor to scale the amplitude by (eg:
- for <2.14> fixed point format, 1.0 equals
- 16384, so 16384 is the scaling factor).
-
- Table resolution: The number of entries to calculate in a
- full 360 degree wave. Usually you'd make
- this a power of two to simplify angular
- range clipping. Eg: 1024 means there are
- 1024 entries in a 360 degree wave so the
- "resolution" is 360/1024. Because of the
- symmetry requirement this value must be
- divisible by 4.
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- Save table data as: Source (68k assembly), Binary.
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- The generated tables are 90 deg (pi/2 rad) symmetrical and are
- calculated using a Taylor series polynomial sufficiently accurate
- for the data size selected. No external math libraries are required.
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- Numerical input can be in decimal or hexadecimal format. Precede hex
- values with a dollar "$" sign.
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- Pressing RETURN alone at any prompt will return you to the main menu.
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- FINAL WORDS
-
- This is a support tool I wrote years ago during the good ol' days
- of the demo scene ('92 or '93 I think). I came across this while
- rummaging around my hard drive. I'm releasing this in case there are
- demo coders who don't have decent table generation code of their own.
- Note that I cannot support this program as I don't have the time or
- interest but I'll be happy to answer any questions. Excuse the crappy
- shell-GUI, it does the job though :-)
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