[Solved] To compute the zoom in FlyToOrbitViewStateIterator class

Hi all,

I have a WorldWindowGLJPanel and I would like to fly on a given Sector (gov.nasa.worldwind.geom.Sector).
I have created a Sector like that:
Sector sector = new Sector(minlat, maxlat, minlon, maxlon);
with (minlat, maxlat, minlon, maxlon) --> Angle.

And I use the FlyToOrbitViewStateIterator like that:

SloshData sdta = new SloshData(browse, _parent);
OrbitView view = (OrbitView) _parent.get_map().get_earth().getView();
Globe globe = _parent.get_map().get_earth().getModel() .getGlobe();

// Use a PanToIterator to go back to initial view postion
view.applyStateIterator(FlyToOrbitViewSt ateIterator.createPanToIterator(
// The elevation component of 'targetPos' here is not the surface elevation,
// so we ignore it when specifying the view center position.
view, globe, new Position(sector.getCentroid(), 0), Angle.ZERO, Angle.ZERO, 180000));

But I don't want to use the value 180000 anymore, I would like to automatically compute the elevation to see my whole sector.

I tried to search in the JAVA doc of World Wind but I didn't understand how to do that.
Could you help me?
Thanks a lot!!

[patmurris]

That is a geometry problem you can solve by drawing a circle for the globe and a point outside the circle for the eye. From the eye position you can 'see' a portion of the globe - from one horizon to the opposite one. The farther away the eye is, the larger is the sector you can see - it can grow up to 180 degrees, measured from the globe center.

The half angle of the visible sector is acos(globe radius / (globe radius + eye altitude)). So given an angle, you should be able to figure at what altitude to place the eye...

Sorry for the convoluted answer, but this is the kind of 'simple' math you have to deal with when using virtual globes

[mertk]

http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/sh...ht=zoom+extent
I think it might be usable for you. This thread mentions about how to zoom to a specific extent. You can imagine extent as a sector and also altitude is automatically computed within current sector.

[patmurris]

Thanks merkt, i forgot remleduff did post ready to use code there... right to the point