Curve that touches three points
Draw a curve that touches 3 points (1 starting point, 2 medium, 3 final point)
- Do not use functions of a library, implement the curve() function yourself
- coordinates:(x,y) starting point (10,10) medium point (100,200) final point (200,10)
Go
There are, of course, an infinity of curves which can be fitted to 3 points. The most obvious solution is to fit a quadratic curve (using Lagrange interpolation) and so that's what we do here.
As we're not allowed to use library functions to draw the curve, we instead divide the x-axis of the curve between successive points into equal segments and then join the resulting points with straight lines.
The resulting 'curve' is then saved to a .png file where it can be viewed with a utility such as EOG. <lang go>package main
import "github.com/fogleman/gg"
var p = [3]gg.Point{{10, 10}, {100, 200}, {200, 10}}
func lagrange(x float64) float64 {
return (x-p[1].X)*(x-p[2].X)/(p[0].X-p[1].X)/(p[0].X-p[2].X)*p[0].Y + (x-p[0].X)*(x-p[2].X)/(p[1].X-p[0].X)/(p[1].X-p[2].X)*p[1].Y + (x-p[0].X)*(x-p[1].X)/(p[2].X-p[0].X)/(p[2].X-p[1].X)*p[2].Y
}
func getPoints(n int) []gg.Point {
pts := make([]gg.Point, 2*n+1) dx := (p[1].X - p[0].X) / float64(n) for i := 0; i < n; i++ { x := p[0].X + dx*float64(i) pts[i] = gg.Point{x, lagrange(x)} } dx = (p[2].X - p[1].X) / float64(n) for i := n; i < 2*n+1; i++ { x := p[1].X + dx*float64(i-n) pts[i] = gg.Point{x, lagrange(x)} } return pts
}
func main() {
const n = 50 // more than enough for this dc := gg.NewContext(210, 210) dc.SetRGB(1, 1, 1) // White background dc.Clear() for _, pt := range getPoints(n) { dc.LineTo(pt.X, pt.Y) } dc.SetRGB(0, 0, 0) // Black curve dc.SetLineWidth(1) dc.Stroke() dc.SavePNG("quadratic_curve.png")
}</lang>