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2d geometry problem .... ?

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:02 pm

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Given the coordinates of A, B, and C and some arbitrary point within the triangle P ...


Figure B:

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... and given some arbitrary angle a, how can I work out the distance d to the boundary of the triangle?

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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:21 pm

Fixed the attachment issue above. So the problem is calculating the distance to the boundary of a triangle from any point within it it, in any direction, when the points of the triangle are three sets of {x, y} 2d coordinates relative to top-left {0, 0}.
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Post by laklak » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:30 pm

I don't think you can.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:31 pm

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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:36 pm

I was hoping there'd be some kind of formula, but perhaps I need to break it down into smaller triangles or something.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:37 pm

Nope.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:48 pm

Surely I haven't stumbled upon an unsolvable Trigonometry problem?
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Post by NineBerry » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:51 pm

Connect the dot to all three corners. That creates three triangles. The height of these triangles is the distance of the point to the borders.

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Post by Svartalf » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:53 pm

it's not a trig problem. to calculate a distance, you need measurements. If you knew the length of the sides of the triangle, and the point's distance to the other two sides, you might have a prayer of doing it, but in a triangle of indeterminate size and with an undefined point, calculating a distance is impossible.
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Post by NineBerry » Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:10 pm

Svartalf wrote:
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it's not a trig problem. to calculate a distance, you need measurements. If you knew the length of the sides of the triangle, and the point's distance to the other two sides, you might have a prayer of doing it, but in a triangle of indeterminate size and with an undefined point, calculating a distance is impossible.
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Post by laklak » Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:31 pm

You can get the lengths of the big triangle legs because you're got the coordinates. With all three legs you can get the internal angles. But that's still not solving the problem. To do that you'd need either the coordinates where two legs of the cross intersect the big triangle, or 2 angles and one length on the smaller triangle to calculate d. The smaller triangle has one 90 angle, and one equal to 360 -(a + 90). But you still need a length.

You could move point P anywhere within the big triangle and angle a would remain the same, but d would change.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:40 pm

NineBerry wrote:
Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:51 pm
Connect the dot to all three corners. That creates three triangles. The height of these triangles is the distance of the point to the borders.
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The figure may be misleading. The angle a is arbitrary, therefore h = 2A/b only guarantees d = h when a is a specific value - imagine how it'd look with a ± 20°
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:50 pm

I think I need this explained in a simpler form that the Wiki page offers.
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Re: 2d geometry problem .... ?

Post by JimC » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:50 pm

9B has nailed it. You actually don't need the angle you mentioned in your OP, Brian, simply all 4 coordinates, then use 3 different versions of the formula, one for the perpendicular distance to each of the 3 sides. You could, additionally, calculate the angle if you wanted.
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