Sharps new round displays (dashboards) and clear screens

[Freakuk]

Just seen this on the beebs website, pretty impressive stuff I can see the car applications already.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/31011938

[Riley Blue]

Circular instruments in a car - what will they think of next...

[kambites]

I'm guessing that round screen is a right arse to code for.

[rejn]

kambites said:

I'm guessing that round screen is a right arse to code for.

nah - you just move to (r, theta) instead of (x,y) - dead easy!!

[Krikkit]

rejn said:

kambites said:

I'm guessing that round screen is a right arse to code for.

nah - you just move to (r, theta) instead of (x,y) - dead easy!!

Cartesian to circular co-ordinate fun. And to think of all those folks at school who said you'd never use radians in the real world!

[Pixelpeep7r]

Krikkit said:

rejn said:

kambites said:

I'm guessing that round screen is a right arse to code for.

nah - you just move to (r, theta) instead of (x,y) - dead easy!!

Cartesian to circular co-ordinate fun. And to think of all those folks at school who said you'd never use radians in the real world!

they're all too busy eating pi to care ;p

[Hoofy]

A circular smartphone? Hm, you'll feel like a tt answering the thing upside down when you wonder why you can't hear the caller.