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histogram for distribution of interaction directions

Asked by kalogeropoulos

Hello all,

i hope you are going well during convid.
I would like an advise please.
I have used the function plotDirections to plot the histogram for distribution of ineraction directions. All good as far.
My question is why is plotted between 0 and 180 and not between 0 and 360 degrees??
Is it wrong? i cant change it inside the function.

Thank you

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Bettina Suhr (bettina-suhr) said : 		#1

Hi,

I think it is correct that the interaction direction is returning values between 0 and 179.

Imagine two spheres in contact. The direction of the contact normal vector will change depending if you calculate it from sphere 1 to sphere 2 or the other way around. If the contact normal vector is e.g. parallel to the x-axis, how will you decide if the contact has 0 degree or 180 degree?

You can use the plotDirections() function as it is.

Hope that helps,
Bettina

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