Hi Jared,
For clarification, the ROS standard is to use SI notation with mks units.
 And radians are the measurement of angle.  The best documentation of it is
here http://www.ros.org/wiki/tf/CoordinateFrameConventions This should be
promoted to a more visible location.

Please ticket any usage of degrees in an API for they should all be in
radians.

Tully

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Jared Marshall Glover <jglov@mit.edu>wrote:

> Hi Radu,
>
> Ok I created a ticket.  But it may be a larger issue than just consistency
> in
> SACSegmentation::setEpsAngle().  Also, you don't necessarily want to break
> existing code without warning.  Maybe you should decide on a unit system
> and
> put a clear indication in the documentation that as of version XXX all
> units
> will be standardized?
>
> -Jared
>
>
> Quoting Radu Bogdan Rusu <rusu@willowgarage.com>:
>
> > Hi Jared,
> >
> > oops. Can you please send me a patch (ticket works too)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Radu.
> >
> > On 08/10/2010 02:05 PM, Jared Marshall Glover wrote:
> >> There seems to be an inconsistency in PCL (at least in cturtle...I
> haven't
> >> checked latest), in that some methods take angles in radians and some in
> >> degrees.  For example, SACSegmentation::setEpsAngle() accepts degrees
> for
> >> SACMODEL_ORIENTED_PLANE, but radians for SACMODEL_ORIENTED_LINE.
> >> Perhaps there
> >> should be a single convention throughout PCL to avoid confusion?
> >> It's already
> >> caused some headaches around here =)
> >>
> >> -Jared
> >>
> >>
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