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MarkMoxon
on Sept 28, 2020
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Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC ...
There are tables for sin, cos and arctan, but these are only used for drawing the planet’s circles. All the ship-drawing and universe manipulation is done using the small angle approximation, so there’s no need for lookup tables.
Lots more info here:
https://www.bbcelite.com/explore/articles/deep_dive_pitching...
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Lots more info here:
https://www.bbcelite.com/explore/articles/deep_dive_pitching...