Re: +0 and -0

Chris Robinson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.openal
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday, April 07, 2011 6:05:31 AM Kanishka Weerasekara wrote:
> Is there a difference between +0.0 and -0.0 in position of an sound object.
> My idea was that 0,0 is the origin and had continuous values positive and
> negative. But now when - value was added in front of the 0.0 the sound
> seems to be more biased towards the rear. Is this imaginary, or is there a
> reason behind this.

Hi.

I think in general, +0 and -0 shouldn't have an appreciable difference in 
positioning. They're used as-is with the internal calculations, so some 
gotchas with IEEE fp math may apply, but a +0 or -0 in the relative position 
shouldn't pan differently.

However, if the values are very small, like -0.0000001 or +0.0000001, then the 
panning may be noticeable (depending on which plane is offset like that, the 
output setup, the implementation, and certain source properties).
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