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Re: evenly spaced vector [message #81327 is a reply to message #81182]

Thu, 06 September 2012 12:41

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On Thursday, September 6, 2012 1:23:51 PM UTC-4, sivan wrote:
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>>> it doesn't matter whether I use arcsample or not.
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>>> the problem is that i don't place evenly spaced points along the curve.
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>>> modified or unmodified arcsample routine doesn't work as requested. i tried both.
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>> x0 = randomn(seed,5) & y0 = randomn(seed,5)
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>> arcsample, x0, y0, x, y
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>> plot, x0, y0 & oplot, x, y, psym=1
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>> plot, sqrt((x(1:*)-x)^2 + (y(1:*)-y)^2)
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>> It looks evenly spaced to me.
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>> The points are evenly spaced along the (spline interpolation) path, but that does not necessarily mean equally distant from each other (linear interpolation).
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>> ARCSAMPLE up-samples by a factor of 100. If you modify that to a larger and larger number, then neighbor points will tend to be more and more equidistant.
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> this is the graphic:
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> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8iEehZBld1OLUVXdndEQ2RwcE0
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> as you can see, arcsample doesn't work properly. moreover, some points fall outside the curve.
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> this is the code and the data:
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The points are equally spaced in path length, where path length between data values is defined by the pythagorean theorem. It's doing what you asked it to do. But the pythagorean theorem doesn't really make sense when X is tempoerature and Y is log_g, does it?

If you want equidistantly sampled points in *plot* space, then you need to transform to device coordinates first, then do your arcsampling.

Some warnings. ARCSAMPLE uses SPL_INTERP(), which has some overshoot for rapidly varying functions like yours. You may not want that. Also, you used David's original code which sets the endpoint slopes to AVGSLOPEX and AVGSLOPEY, but that assumes that it's still a closed curve. Yours is not a closed curve. For your open curves, you should revert to natural splines where the slope is not specified at the endpoints.

Craig

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[Message index]

		evenly spaced vector By: sivan on Tue, 21 August 2012 11:21
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 02 September 2012 13:46
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: sivan on Thu, 06 September 2012 04:22
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: sivan on Sun, 02 September 2012 07:27
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 07 September 2012 07:06
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: sivan on Fri, 07 September 2012 12:40
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: sivan on Fri, 07 September 2012 00:17
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 06 September 2012 12:41
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: sivan on Thu, 06 September 2012 10:22
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 06 September 2012 07:00
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 07 September 2012 20:40
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: sivan on Wed, 19 September 2012 08:41
		Re: evenly spaced vector By: sivan on Sun, 02 September 2012 05:33

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