[rrd-users] How store wind vector data?

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

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From: "Peter" <pspiegler at gmx.de>
To: <rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [rrd-users] How store wind vector data?


> The 359-0 problem can solved easy by changing from polar coordinate system
> (velocity+direction) to cartesian coordinate system:
> Wind_X = velocity * cos(direction * PI / 180)
> Wind_Y = velocity * sin(direction * PI / 180)
>
> The normal AVERAGE aggregate function can applied to Wind_X  and Wind_Y.
>
> The back transformation is:
> velocity = Sqrt(Wind_X*Wind_X   + Wind_Y*Wind_Y)
> direction = Atan2(Wind_Y, Wind_Y) * 180 / PI
>
> I read in the rrd documentation, that calculated data source are possible.
> So a solution would be:
> Define 2 data source Wind_X, Wind_Y.
> The update program has calculate Wind_X, Wind_Y from velocity+direction.

Yeah, this could work. Split the wind into components, do this outside 
RRDtool.

For graphing and printing purposes you can combine the components using 
CDEF.

> Can I define velocity  and direction as calculated data source with the
> formulas?
> velocity = Sqrt(Wind_X*Wind_X   + Wind_Y*Wind_Y)
> direction = Atan2(Wind_Y, Wind_Y) * 180 / PI

Never mind the exact formulas (i've seen your other post). Yes, this should 
be possible with CDEF, although you may have to rewrite some of the math.