Re: [PATCH] d3dx9: Reduce rounding error in D3DXQuaternionToAxisAngle

[Alex Henrie]

2017-11-09 6:33 GMT-07:00 Henri Verbeet :
> On 9 November 2017 at 16:45, Alex Henrie  wrote:
> > -
> >    *pangle = 2.0f * acosf(pq->w);
> > -
> >    *pangle = 2.0f * acos(pq->w); /* acosf has too much rounding error */
>
> Does that rounding error by any chance get better if you replace
> "acosf(x)" with "atan2f(sqrtf((1.0f - x) * (1.0f + x)), x)"?

That actually makes the rounding error worse on my machine:

printf("acos:  %.9f\n", 2*acos(10.0f/22.0f));
printf("acosf: %.9f\n", 2*acosf(10.0f/22.0f));
printf("atan:  %.9f\n", 2*atan2f(sqrtf((1.0f - 10.0f/22.0f) * (1.0f +
10.0f/22.0f)), 10.0f/22.0f));

acos:  2.197868979
acosf: 2.197869062
atan:  2.197868824

-Alex