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Average cross sectional area advice?
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Bit of a noob so sorry if i'm not descriptive enough.

Im trying to use python to calculate the average cross sectional area of a rectangular prism given coordinate points. My logic was that id increment pitch,roll, and yaw in a nested for loop trio and take the convex hull each time as the area. Then add em up, divide by the number of times i did this. Considering this is a 20 by 30 by 10 rectangular prism, I expected an answer in the 300s ish with all numbers being between 200-600.

This was the general rotation stuff I did:

while step < 8:

#x axis rotation axis

y[step] = y[step] * math.cos(0.0174533) z[step] * math.sin(0.0174533)

z[step] = z[step] * math.cos(0.0174533) - y[step] * math.sin(0.0174533)

step = step 1

step = 0

then y

x[step] = x[step] * math.cos(0.0174533) - z[step] * math.sin(0.0174533)

z[step] = z[step] * math.cos(0.0174533) x[step] * math.sin(0.0174533)

then z

y[step] = y[step] * math.cos(0.0174533) x[step] * math.sin(0.0174533)

x[step] = x[step] * math.cos(0.0174533) y[step] * math.sin(0.0174533)

lets just say that didn't happen. In my original attempt I was getting numbers as low as 100 and now they've only gotten lower after fixing angles. any idea which i could be messing up? Ill send all the code need be but i guess question 1 is does this bit look right at all.

Edit: code https://repl.it/@AlexisisVerbaro/StrikingInternalFolder

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