Re: [pygame] Not sure what to call this.

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On Sun, September 16, 2007 6:25 am, Lamonte Harris wrote:
> Basically lets give a real live example.  When your standing up and you
> move your arm at an diagonal the socket of the bone doesn't move but your
> arm does, lets put this back to pygame.  How would Say if K have a simple
> sprite that has 2 parts body,1 arm.  How would say if that sprite is in
> the middle of the screen don't move but when I move the mouse the arm
> points in the direction of where the mouse is located, but doesn't exactly
> move to that position, how would that exactly work?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but you seem to be describing "inverse
kinematics," the problem of figuring out how to move a jointed rod such as
an arm to have it reach a certain point.