Twirl

Tools for zooming and rotating around arbitrary points in 2-D and 3-D. Twirl uses Tait-Bryan angles (i.e., roll, pitch, and yaw) for 3-D rotations.

Usage

$ npm install twirl

To use Twirl in Node.js, simply require it:

var twirl = require("twirl");

A minified, browserified file dist/twirl.min.js is included for use in the browser. Including this file attaches a twirl object to window:

<script src="dist/twirl.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

2-D Rotate/Zoom

Twirl has a combined 2-D rotate/zoom method called rotateZoom. To use this function, you will need to specify:

• the rotation angle (degrees counter-clockwise in a right-handed coordinate system)
• the rotation center (the point around which your points will be rotated; if null the rotation will be around the origin)
• zoom factor (amount to zoom in/out)
• list of coordinates you want to rotate/zoom (as an array-of-arrays)

var angle = 90;      // 90 degree rotation
var center = [1, 1]; // rotate around the point (1, 1)
var zoom = 2;        // 2x zoom
var coords = [[3, 1], [1, 1], [0, 2]]; // (x, y) coordinates
twirl.rotateZoom(angle, center, zoom, coords);
// output: [[1, 5], [1, 1], [-1, -1]]

Twirl also has individual rotate, zoom, and translate methods. Please refer to the unit tests for details/usage.

3-D Rotate/Zoom

Twirl's combined 3-D rotate/zoom method is called rotateZoom3D. This function requires the same inputs as rotateZoom, except that it takes three input angles (roll, pitch, and yaw) instead of just one. 3-D rotations are defined by specifying their elemental rotations; rotateZoom3D follows the z-y'-x'' (yaw-pitch-roll) intrinsic rotation convention.

var roll = 90;          // 90 degree rotation around the x-axis
var pitch = 90;         // 90 degree rotation around the y-axis
var yaw = 90;           // 90 degree rotation around the z-axis
var center = [1, 1, 1]; // rotate around the point (1, 1, 1)
var zoom = 2;           // 2x zoom
var coords = [[1, 1, 1], [2, 3, 4]]; // (x, y, z) coordinates
twirl.rotateZoom3D(roll, pitch, yaw, center, zoom, coords);
// output: [[1, 1, 1], [7, -3, 3]]

Twirl has a rotate3D (3-D rotation around the origin) method, as well as elemental rotation methods (called roll, pitch, and yaw). Please refer to unit tests for details/usage.

Tests

Unit tests are included in test/, and can be run using npm:

$ npm test