Dragging and changing a curve (image)

[Jim Hurley]

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>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:06:32 +0200
>From: Beat Cornaz <beat.c at hetnet.nl>
>Subject: Dragging and changing a curve (image)
>To: Revolution group <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>Hello all,
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>I've solved my last previous question about dragging and changing a
>line object. Thanks to Martin , Mark &
>
>Now I want to be able to interactively change the shape of a curve,
>defined by a algebraic formula (e.g. y = ax^b + c). This curve is
>drawn on the screen as an image (for now).
>
>Is an images the only possibility for drawing an plot?
>
>I need to know the algebraic formula of the curve after the reshaping
>for further calculations.

Beat,

I know that Alejandro has developed a bezier function for RR. It is very cool.

If you want to just plot a known function, I would recommend my 
favorite graphics tool, Turtle Graphics.

Such a plot would be achieved very simply with:

local a,b,c, theYScale

on mouseUP
   put 1 into a
   put 2 into b
   put 100 into c
   put .005 into theYScale--To keep it on the screen

   startTurtle
   setHome 0,0 --Or wherever you want the origin

   repeat with x = 1 to 200 -- Or whatever the range is for x.
     setxy x, y(x)
   end repeat

end mouseUp


function y x
   return theYScale*(a*x^b + c) --Or whatever function you like
end y

This is quite fast, but if you want to speed it up, you can lock the 
screen just before the repeat loop and unlock it just afterwards. You 
can draw an image (pencil tool) or a graphic (set graphic points). 
You could even introduce sliders to provide values for a, b and c.

The code to implement TG is on my web site at 
http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/ under Turtle Graphics.

Jim