MATLAB: How to find coordinates of points that are placed on a line with specific distance from first point of the line

coordinatespoints

I tried this: solve(-(y1-y0)*x+(x1-x0)*y+(y1-y0)*x0-(x1-x0)*y0,sqrt((x0-x)^2+(y0-y)^2)-10); But the result of solve is 2 points and I need just the point on my segment. As I need to use it in a loop I can't choose the one on the segment and delete another one. I wonder is there another way different from solve to do this?

Best Answer

If you want a particular distance D away from (x0,y0) along the line connecting (x0,y0) to (x1,y1) then

xyd = sqrt((x1-x0).^2+(y1-y0).^2);
x = x0 + D .* (x1-x0)./xyd;
y = y0 + D .* (y1-y0)./xyd;

Related Solutions

MATLAB: 4th order Runge-Kutta code that can solve for several intial conditions

Here's a version:

% Initial conditions
t0=0;
x0=0:0.2:1;
y0=1:0.2:2;
dt=0.1;
tz=1;
t_range= t0:dt:tz;
X = zeros(numel(x0),numel(t_range));
Y = zeros(numel(y0),numel(t_range));
x_rk=zeros(1,numel(t_range));
y_rk= zeros(1,numel(t_range));
for n = 1:numel(x0)
    x_rk(1)=x0(n);
    y_rk(1)=y0(n);
    for i=1:length(t_range)-1
        [x_rk(i+1), y_rk(i+1)]=rk_method(x_rk(i),y_rk(i),dt);
    end
    X(n,:) = x_rk;
    Y(n,:) = y_rk;
    %% PLots
    subplot(numel(x0)/2,2,n)
    plot (t_range, x_rk,'b-o',t_range, y_rk,'y-o','MarkerSize',5);
    grid
    title([num2str(x0(n)),'   ',num2str(y0(n))])
    legend('x','y')
end
disp('X = '), disp(X)
disp('Y = '), disp(Y)
%% Functions
function [dxdt, dydt]= f(x,y)
dxdt =  5*x-3*y;
dydt = -6*x+2*y;
end 
function [x1, y1]=rk_method(x0,y0,dt)
[k11, k12]=f(x0,y0);     
[k21, k22]=f(x0+0.5*dt*k11,y0+0.5*dt*k12); 
[k31, k32]=f(x0+0.5*dt*k21,y0+0.5*dt*k22); 
[k41, k42]=f(x0+dt*k31, y0+dt*k32); 
x1=x0+dt*((k11/6)+((k21+k31)/3)+(k41/6));
y1=y0+dt*((k12/6)+((k22+k32)/3)+(k42/6));
end

MATLAB: [Waterloo] Draggable Line

I don't think that will work. annotation works on the whole figure unfortunately, not on the units of the axes control itself like you'd want. There was a discussion of this within the past two weeks. You can create draggable lines with imdistline() or improfile(), both in the Image Processing Toolbox.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

MATLAB: 4th order Runge-Kutta code that can solve for several intial conditions

MATLAB: [Waterloo] Draggable Line

Related Question