viewspeed math What is the logic behind Viewspeed?

[potato psoas]

Hey,

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before (all I could find was some math by Drimzi here:

but how exactly do you calculate Viewspeed conversions? I can't really wrap my head around just math, I want to know the process behind it. And last I tried wrapping my head around it my conversion calculations ended up being the same as 100% match at distance.

I tried googling gear ratios and I found this on wikipedia but I'm not sure where to go from here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear_train. I assume this is the right article.

[DPI Wizard]

A simple explanation is that it uses the chord length as a constant, and converts to and from it based on the difference between it and the arc length.

 

[potato psoas]

so when we are talking about converting sensitivity, the distance of the arc and chord length is all we need to compare?

Edited June 25, 2017 by potato psoas