Your calculation for findB is wrong... it should be return y - (m*x) it's not division it's subtraction but other than that this helped me because I was having a hard time with the intersection part which you did very well. I translated it back to a program in actionscript 2.0 that runs once and prints then exits. Here it is...
var test = true;
onEnterFrame = function () {
if (test) {
var PI = 3.14195;
//calculates pi, 3.14159
//data set 1
var x1 = 10;
var y1 = 23;
var x2 = 65;
var y2 = -17;
//data set 2
var x3 = 49;
var y3 = 25;
var x4 = 7;
var y4 = -12;
var m1 = findM(x1, y1, x2, y2);
var m2 = findM(x3, y3, x4, y4);
var a = findB(y1, x1, m1);
var b = findB(y3, x3, m2);
/* view work so far */
trace("EQUATION 1: ");
printLineEqu(m1, a);
trace("EQUATION 2: ");
printLineEqu(m2, b);
/* done */
//parallel line check
if ((m2-m1) == 0) {
trace("both lines are parallel.");
return 0;
//exit if out of range
}
//calculate theta
var theta = findTheta(m1, m2);
if ((theta<0) || (theta>(PI/2))) {
trace("theta: "+theta);
trace("angle out of range.");
return 0;
//exit if out of range
}
//find intersections, if all is well
var Xintersection = findXintersection(a, b, m1, m2);
trace("X intersection: "+Xintersection);
var Yintersection = findYintersection(a, b, m1, m2);
trace("Y intersection: "+Yintersection);
test = false;
}
};
//used for plotting on ti-89 as check, plug and chug
function printLineEqu(_m:Number, _b:Number) {
if (_b<0) {
trace("Y = "+_m+"*x"+_b);
} else {
trace("Y = "+_m+"*x+"+_b);
}
}
//find theta
function findTheta(_m1:Number, _m2:Number):Number {
_theta = (_m1-_m2)/(1+(_m1*_m2));
_theta = Math.abs(_theta);
//absolute value
_theta = Math.atan(_theta);
//inverse tan
return _theta;
}
//find the y intersection
function findYintersection(_a:Number, _b:Number, _m1:Number, _m2:Number):Number {
return ((_a*_m2)-(_b*_m1))/(_m2-_m1);
}
//Fine the x intersection
function findXintersection(_a:Number, _b:Number, _m1:Number, _m2:Number):Number {
return (_a-_b)/(_m2-_m1);
}
//find slope
function findM(_x1:Number, _y1:Number, _x2:Number, _y2:Number):Number {
return (_y2-_y1)/(_x2-_x1);
}
//find b
function findB(_yB:Number, _xB:Number, _mB:Number):Number {
return (_yB-(_mB*_xB));
}
//find X intercept
function findXintercept(_m:Number, _b:Number):Number {
return ((0-_b)/_m);
}
//find Y intercept
function findYintercept(_m:Number, _b:Number):Number {
return ((_m*0)+_b);
}
Thanks alot!
Hi I am trying to use some Actionscript 2.0 for this problem but if you can abstraction to basic algebra I think my intentions are clear...
I am simply trying to calculate some X Y intercepts but am getting poor results... I studied the algebraic formula to derive this program
However! I am still getting the wrong answers. Can someone please help me fix this?
Here is my code
test = true;
var x1 = 3;
var y1 = -12;
var x2 = 16;
var y2 = -10;
var x3 = 8;
var y3 = -15;
var x4 = 12;
var y4 = -1;
function determineXY():Void {
//Solve
//initiate lines
//line1
//m
var line1m = ((y2-y1)/(x2-x1));
var line1msave = line1m;
//b
var line1b = (y1-(line1m*x1));
var line1bsave = line1b;
//line2
//m
var line2m = ((y4-y3)/(x4-x3));
var line2msave = line2m;
//b
var line2b = (y3-(line2m*x3));
var line2bsave = line2b;
//Solve X
//determine m(x)
if (line1b>=0) {
line2m = Math.abs(line2m)*1;
}
if (line1b<0) {
line2m = Math.abs(line2m)*-1;
}
//determine b
if (line2msave>=0) {
line1b = Math.abs(line1b)*1;
}
if (line2msave<0) {
line1b = Math.abs(line1b)*-1;
}
xint = ((line1b+line2b)/(line1m+line2m));
//Solve Y
yint = ((line2msave*xint)+line2bsave);
}
function getXYIntercept(inputX1:Number, inputY1:Number, inputX2:Number, inputY2:Number, inputX3:Number, inputY3:Number, inputX4:Number, inputY4:Number):Void {
x1 = inputX1;
y1 = inputY1;
x2 = inputX2;
y2 = inputY2;
x3 = inputX3;
y3 = inputY3;
x4 = inputX4;
y4 = inputY4;
determineXY();
//draw (this is just to visual the results)
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", 1);
holder.lineStyle(2, 0x000000, 100);
holder.moveTo(x1, y1);
holder.lineTo(x2, y3);
holder.moveTo(x3, y3);
holder.lineTo(x4, y4);
intersection._x = xint;
intersection._y = yint;
}
onEnterFrame = function () {
if (test) {
getXYIntercept(x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3,x4,y4);
trace(xint);
trace(yint)
}
test = false;
};
This is it... only thing not in the code is the movie clip referenced above
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