On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Blaise Gassend <blaise@willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> Should we add an option to invert the scan to the hokuyo_node? It is
>> pretty easy to do, and the Sick driver already has that option.
>
> hi Blaise,
>
> It wouldn't hurt, and a patch to that effect would likely help people like Jeff.
>
> But in the long term, I think that we should get rid of the "invert"
> options.  The need for the those options is a holdover from the old
> days; it's high time that we leave Flatland.

I agree that doing a 3D rotation is cleaner.

To help us poor, confused users, this should be accompanied by a
helper function that rotates the image 180 degrees in one statement.
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 joq