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Posted by awneil: Sat. Nov 11, 2017 - 11:22 AM
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In another thread, meslomp wrote:
note that you can also most likely rotate the display, it has an inverse X and inverse Y bit in a register by swapping these you can write test in any direction you want ans this will give the orientation of the display.

 

https://www.avrfreaks.net/comment...

 

I have an idea for a project which could be in one of six orientations (a hexagonal box that could be "standing" on any one of the six edges).

 

There would be a display, so this would need to be able to rotate the "content" to these six orientations.

 

So I'm wondering if there are LCD controllers which can do the rotation "internally" - or if I'd have to do it in code ?

 

If I have to do it in code, I guess meslomp's tip would mean I'd only actually need to do three rotations - and then use the "inverse X / Y" to get the other three ... ?

 

 

It's all just conjecture at the moment.

 

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Posted by david.prentice: Sat. Nov 11, 2017 - 12:25 PM
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As far as I can remember, KS0108 and T6963C have fixed orientations.
Since these are monochrome controllers it is practical to keep a buffer in SRAM. Many libraries manipulate the buffer and simply blit the buffer in one go. So all you need to do is have a blit function for the orientation that you want.
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Colour displays would need massive mirror buffers. And blitting a large colour screen takes lots of millliseconds. TFT controllers can rearrange everything via hardware registers. Likewise OLED controllers.
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Your project is using six 60 degree rotations instead of four 90 degree rotations. I am not aware of any hardware controller that can do 60 degrees. You will have to do a lot of maths yourself.
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Posted by DocJC: Sat. Nov 11, 2017 - 05:47 PM
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Are you drawing text or objects?

 

What is the resolution of the display?

 

Unless you are using a relatively high resolution display I'd suspect a 60' rotation will result in a lot of poorly formed characters with jagged edges.

 

A "quick" test of this on a display with your intended resolution and a few characters of text might be in order.

 

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Posted by awneil: Sat. Nov 11, 2017 - 05:50 PM (Reply to #3)
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DocJC wrote:
Are you drawing text or objects?

 

What is the resolution of the display?

These details may be on the back of the next envelope ...

 

Unless you are using a relatively high resolution display I'd suspect a 60' rotation will result in a lot of poorly formed characters with jagged edges.

quite possibly...

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Posted by meslomp: Mon. Nov 13, 2017 - 06:22 AM
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I do not seem to get to 6 rotations, but only 4 as you can not see through the display the rear (mirrored) see through is normally not present.

 

but other than that you can make the text readable any way you hold the display by just setting the bits correct.

with another controller that we use in a display at work, we use it in 4 different ways, depending on the customer needs "portrait or landscape" and on what side (Left or right vs top or bottom) of the PCB we can better connect the display to the PCB. Sometimes it is more convenient for us to have the display mounted on the left/top side and sometimes on the right/bottom side. All they then do in FW is adjust the values of the x and Y parameter and the display is readable again.

Note that when you do that you also have to keep in mind how many characters/pixels you have available in x and y direction in the specific configuration except when you have a square display.

 

 

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Posted by awneil: Mon. Nov 13, 2017 - 11:08 AM (Reply to #5)
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meslomp wrote:
I do not seem to get to 6 rotations

Like this:

 

 

 

 

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Posted by david.prentice: Mon. Nov 13, 2017 - 11:19 AM
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If that is what you are trying to do, it is trivial.
Make an array for your six colours.
Draw 6 filledTriangles using an appropriate index into your array.
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I thought that you wanted to rotate a complex image like a photo. Even drawing text at an angle is awkward,
I normally think of GLCD as a monochrome LCD like KS0108.
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Oh, and I think that some TFT controllers can use a colour Palette. So you would only need to draw the hexagon once. Change the Palette to display the different "rotation".
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Posted by awneil: Mon. Nov 13, 2017 - 11:34 AM (Reply to #7)
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david.prentice wrote:
If that is what you are trying to do,

No - it's just to illustrate the 6 rotations.

 

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Posted by david.prentice: Mon. Nov 13, 2017 - 11:48 AM
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So my original understanding was correct. It is not only compute intensive but it does not always look very good.
It is probably easier to redraw in the new orientation than trying to rotate an existing image.
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Algorithms exist. Google for " image rotation". Shear 30 degrees horizontally and then shear 30 degrees vertically.
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Posted by awneil: Mon. Nov 13, 2017 - 11:59 AM (Reply to #9)
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david.prentice wrote:
Algorithms exist. 

Of course.

 

The point of my question was to see if there are any controllers which have it built-in.

 

So far, it seems not ...

 

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Posted by david.prentice: Mon. Nov 13, 2017 - 12:06 PM
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Not any small GLCD or TFT controllers that I am aware of.
I guess that the display controller in your PC can do all sorts of clever things with enough horsepower and memory.

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Posted by awneil: Fri. Jul 20, 2018 - 04:44 PM
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Follow-up: "computational" methods: https://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/rotate-image-tft-display-any-angle#comment-2515936

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