[H-GEN] A few quick questions

[Russell Stuart]

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On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:01, Andrae Muys wrote:
> Russell Stuart wrote:
> > For what it is worth, in the source I have the new algorithm calculates
> > the mouse movement as:
> >     Assume:
> >          xset mouse A 0
> >          Mouse has moved D pixels
> >     Then the calculated movement is:
> >          D' = D * D^(A-1) / 2
> >     Where ^ means "raise to the power of".
> > Its a bit more complex in the code, as D is an (x,y) vector.
> 
> Are you certain?  This must be rather impressive code as I am personally 
> unaware of any way to raise a vector to an arbitary exponent?

Yes, I did over simplify it.  It raises the magnitude of the vector to
the power, then multiplies the vector by the resulting scalar.  Perhaps
this would of been clearer:

    D' = D * mag(D)^(A-1) / 2

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