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iOS Objective-C Basics (Retired) Pointers and Memory Structs

ruo pu koh
ruo pu koh
2,669 Points
Posted by ruo pu koh
ruo pu koh
2,669 Points

Confusing example.

There's so many "sphere"s littered throughout the code it's so hard to follow.

In the makeSphere function, we're creating a Sphere called sphere?

Why does a sphere have 3 centers anyway?

1 Answer

Gwenaël Magnenat
Gwenaël Magnenat
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Gwenaël Magnenat
Gwenaël Magnenat
14,617 Points

I will try to answer with what I understood. In the makeSphere function you create a sphere with the Sphere struct and we return the sphere created at the end of the function to be used in the program. A sphere has 1 center defined by 3 coordinate values in a 3D space (x, y, z). It defines where the sphere is placed. In this example, the center is an array with the 3 values. That's why he defines a pointer that can point to each value of the center array. (ball.center[0], ball.center[1], ball.center[2])

I hope it helps..