How to return the intersection point of a line and a circle-arc ?

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bh dhouha
bh dhouha el 11 de Mayo de 2015
Comentada: John D'Errico el 11 de Mayo de 2015
As shown in the figure below i would like to find the intersection between the edge and the arc Please help me
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Adam
Adam el 11 de Mayo de 2015
That function has an output argument which represents the arc object. Try something more like
hArc = drawCircleArc(...);
Then query
hArc.XData
hArc.YData
and they should have a lot more points to work with.
The equation of the line is trivial so even a for loop of the arc's XData testing the YData against the y-value of the line for the given x-value should give you the point on the arc which is closes to the line.
Then it is up to you what level of accuracy you want to home in from there to the true intersection value.

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John D'Errico
John D'Errico el 11 de Mayo de 2015
Editada: John D'Errico el 11 de Mayo de 2015
Simplest is to turn them into a pair of polygons, then use Doug Schwarz's intersections tool from the file exchange. Just generate sufficiently many points on the circular arc, and it will be accurate.
If you want an exact or symbolic solution, then this too is doable. Not even that difficult. Simply formulate the equations of a circle and a line, then use solve.
syms x y t x1 x2 y1 y2 x0 y0 r theta
linex = (1-t)*x1 + t*x2;
liney = (1-t)*y1 + t*y2;
circlex = r*cos(theta) + x0;
circley = r*sin(theta) + y0;
[t,theta] = solve(linex == circlex,liney == circley,{t,theta});
Substitute in the values of {x0,y0,r,x1,x2,y1,y2}. If t is between 0 and 1, and theta is in the appropriate interval, then you have an intersection.
Or you could do it using fsolve, or pencil and paper.
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson el 11 de Mayo de 2015
r would be the distance from the center to one of the other two points. If the distance to the other point is different than you are not dealing with a circle. x0 and y0 would be the center of the circle.
John D'Errico
John D'Errico el 11 de Mayo de 2015
I showed you what to do for a line based on two points. As far s a circle goes, as Walter points out, surely you can compute the radius of a circle given the center and one point on the circumference. with both points, as long as they are both the same distance from the center, that merely gives you a pair of angles. Just simple algebra.

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