Transform matrix, convert one triangle to another: missing last step - matrix

I am trying to get the transform matrix from one triangle to another. I am principally concerned about 2D. We will see for 3D later (but open to solutions).
I was reading this answer.
Now please correct me: if my first equilateral triangle, with sides of length 1, has its leftmost point located at the origin, its transform should be the identity matrix.
So, reading the solution above, the transform matrix I am looking for, should be triangle B matrix * inv(Identity) == B matrix.
I cannot wrap my head around that, because it seems wrong. In the given image, I want to transform blue to red, with blue having one point at the origin. The selected point of transform for the red triangle is always the closest to the origin.
The last missing image is the last transform merging Blue as Red (same triangle).
I am using Eigen (c++) for my transforms and calculation already.
Questions:
What info did I miss in the process?
What is the real transform matrix given those constraints?
Thanks

The inverted matrix is generated from the triangle you are translating from, not the destination. I've made a fiddle that demonstrates this here: https://jsfiddle.net/dwch1tju/
Let's say your first triangle has points at [0,0] [0.5,sin(60)] and [1,0] and the second triangle has points at [1.1,0.7] [0.9,1.9] and [1,0]. Then the triangle matrices are:
[[0, 0.5, 1],[0, 0.866, 0], [1, 1, 1]]
[[1.1, 0.9, 2.3], [0.7, 1.9, 0.6], [1, 1, 1]]
Demonstrated by:
const triangleMatrixA = createTriangleMatrix(triangleA);
const triangleMatrixB = createTriangleMatrix(triangleB);
Which creates a transform of
[[0.88, 0.56, -1.36], [0.07, 0.85, -0.67], [0, 0, 1]]
Demonstrated by:
const invertedMatrixB = invertMatrix(triangleMatrixB);
const multiplied = multiplyMatricies(triangleMatrixA, invertedMatrixB)
The fiddle then uses the transform on the three points in the second triangle, to show that they become the points of the first tringle in these lines:
const translatedA = multiplyPointByMatrix(multiplied, triangleB.a);
const translatedB = multiplyPointByMatrix(multiplied, triangleB.b);
const translatedC = multiplyPointByMatrix(multiplied, triangleB.c);
The first generated image in the fiddle shows the original location of the triangles and the second image shows that the translated points place the triangles in the same location.
The answer you link is not inverting a transform. It is inverting a triangle matrix that contains the coordinates of the triangle, then multiplying it by the other triangle matrix to create a transform.

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How to find lowest magnitude rotation of a rotationally symmetric object?

I'm trying to figure out, if I'm given a rotation in some form (matrix, quaternion, euler, rotvec, etc.) that's meant to be associated with an object that is known to have rotational symmetry along some axes of some order, how can I convert the given rotation so that the magnitude along those axes is always the lowest magnitude (e.g. if an object has rotation [0, 0, pi] with symmetry on the z-axis of order 4, I would get [0, 0, 0])?
The final rotation will be used to get the relative pose of the object to a camera, so I want to make sure to disambiguate the rotations.
I think that one approach I'm thinking of is to isolate the rotation along the symmetrical axis, reduce the magnitude, and then recompose the rotation.
R = R' * Rsymmetric
Rfinal = R' * Rsymmetric_lowest
I'm not certain how this would work if the object had multiple axes of symmetry.

PIXI.js - Canvas Coordinate to Container Coordinate

I have initiated a PIXI js canvas:
g_App = new PIXI.Application(800, 600, { backgroundColor: 0x1099bb });
Set up a container:
container = new PIXI.Container();
g_App.stage.addChild(container);
Put a background texture (2000x2000) into the container:
var texture = PIXI.Texture.fromImage('picBottom.png');
var back = new PIXI.Sprite(texture);
container.addChild(back);
Set the global:
var g_Container = container;
I do various pivot points and rotations on container and canvas stage element:
// Set the focus point of the container
g_App.stage.x = Math.floor(400);
g_App.stage.y = Math.floor(500); // Note this one is not central
g_Container.pivot.set(1000, 1000);
g_Container.rotation = 1.5; // radians
Now I need to be able to convert a canvas pixel to the pixel on the background texture.
g_Container has an element transform which in turn has several elements localTransform, pivot, position, scale ands skew. Similarly g_App.stage has the same transform element.
In Maths this is simple, you just have vector point and do matix operations on them. Then to go back the other way you just find inverses of those matrices and multiply backwards.
So what do I do here in pixi.js?
How do I convert a pixel on the canvas and see what pixel it is on the background container?
Note: The following is written using the USA convention of using matrices. They have row vectors on the left and multiply them by the matrix on the right. (Us pesky Brits in the UK do the opposite. We have column vectors on the right and multiply it by the matrix on the left. This means UK and USA matrices to do the same job will look slightly different.)
Now I have confused you all, on with the answer.
g_Container.transform.localTransform - this matrix takes the world coords to the scaled/transposed/rotated COORDS
g_App.stage.transform.localTransform - this matrix takes the rotated world coords and outputs screen (or more accurately) html canvas coords
So for example the Container matrix is:
MatContainer = [g_Container.transform.localTransform.a, g_Container.transform.localTransform.b, 0]
[g_Container.transform.localTransform.c, g_Container.transform.localTransform.d, 0]
[g_Container.transform.localTransform.tx, g_Container.transform.localTransform.ty, 1]
and the rotated container matrix to screen is:
MatToScreen = [g_App.stage.transform.localTransform.a, g_App.stage.transform.localTransform.b, 0]
[g_App.stage.transform.localTransform.c, g_App.stage.transform.localTransform.d, 0]
[g_App.stage.transform.localTransform.tx, g_App.stage.transform.localTransform.ty, 1]
So to get from World Coordinates to Screen Coordinates (noting our vector will be a row on the left, so the first operation matrix that acts first on the World coordinates must also be on the left), we would need to multiply the vector by:
MatAll = MatContainer * MatToScreen
So if you have a world coordinate vector vectWorld = [worldX, worldY, 1.0] (I'll explain the 1.0 at the end), then to get to the screen coords you would do the following:
vectScreen = vectWorld * MatAll
So to get screen coords and to get to world coords we first need to calculate the inverse matrix of MatAll, call it invMatAll. (There are loads of places that tell you how to do this, so I will not do it here.)
So if we have screen (canvas) coordinates screenX and screenY, we need to create a vector vectScreen = [screenX, screenY, 1.0] (again I will explain the 1.0 later), then to get to world coordinates worldX and worldY we do:
vectWorld = vectScreen * invMatAll
And that is it.
So what about the 1.0?
In a 2D system you can do rotations, scaling with 2x2 matrices. Unfortunately you cannot do a 2D translations with a 2x2 matrix. Consequently you need 3x3 matrices to fully describe all 2D scaling, rotations and translations. This means you need to make your vector 3D as well, and you need to put a 1.0 in the third position in order to do the translations properly. This 1.0 will also be 1.0 after any matrix operation as well.
Note: If we were working in a 3D system we would need 4x4 matrices and put a dummy 1.0 in our 4D vectors for exactly the same reasons.

Fitting of a sphere using SVD/LMS

I would like to fit a MR binary data of 281*398*104 matrix which is not a perfect sphere, and find out the center and radius of sphere and error also. I know LMS or SVD is a good choice to fit for sphere.
I have tried sphereFit from matlab file exchange but got an error,
>> sphereFit(data)
Warning: Matrix is singular to working precision.
> In sphereFit at 33
ans =
NaN NaN NaN
Would you let me know where is the problem, or any others solution?
If you want to use sphere fitting algorithm you should first extract the boundary points of the object you assume to be a sphere. The result should be represented by a N-by-3 array containing coordinates of the points. Then you can apply sphereFit function.
In order to obtain boundary point of a binary object, there are several methods. One method is to apply morphological erosion (you need the "imerode" function from the image processing toolbox) with small structuring element, then compute set difference between the two images, and finally use the "find" function to transform binary image into a coordinate array.
the idea is as follow:
dataIn = imerode(data, ones([3 3 3]));
bnd = data & ~data2;
inds = find(bnd);
[y, x, z] = ind2sub(size(data), inds); % be careful about x y order
points = [x y z];
sphere = sphereFitting(points);
By the way, the link you gave refers to circle fitting, I suppose you wanted to point to a sphere fitting submission?
regards,

How to plot a 3d graph starting from a set of points as a ground XY base

This question might seem a little strange but for my purposes is not that crazy.
Its easy but I need you to follow me.
The aim
My aim is plotting a tridimensional graph.
The problem
The problem is the material I have in my hands to start building this graph. Actually I have a collection of points in the 2D space (thus tuples of two real ordered values). Consider a moment to have these collection of points stored into an array and now consider to plot them on a 2D diagram. You will just have a nice sparse view of these points.
Well, the second step is this: consider the surface with these points and create a third axis orthogonal to the plane where those points are drawn. The aim is assigning to every point a numerical scalar value (using a function that accepts the couple and returns a numerical value). So the graph should show bars starting from every point and having a specific value according to the assignment function.
How can I achieve this in Mathematica?
A little note
Basically my points in the 2d space are also connected by a graph. Is it possible to connect the top of the bars to the top of other bars whose base point are connected together in the 2d graph?
Some other notes
My graph doesn`t have to be a surface but just a collection of bars placed on a plane in the exact place where the correspondent point they refer to is located. But if you have a good hint how to draw a surface other than bars, it will be gladly accepted.
I hope I was clear. I would like to point that I have Mathematica 8 so all functionalities are available. Thank you.
This can be done using Graphics3D primitives. Lets start with some data
(* a list of 2D coordinates *)
points2D = RandomReal[{0, Pi}, {50, 2}];
(* some edges as a list of pairs of vertex indices *)
edges = Union[Flatten[MapIndexed[Sort /# Thread[{#2[[1]],
Nearest[points2D -> Automatic, #, 4]}] &, points2D], 1]];
(* constructing list of 3D coordinates *)
f[{x_, y_}] := 2 + Sin[x y]
points3D = {##, f[{##}]} & ### points2D;
The actual plot can then be constructed as follows (width is half the width of the bars)
With[{width = .02},
Graphics3D[{{LightBlue, EdgeForm[None],
Cuboid[{#1, #2, 0} - width {1, 1, 0}, {##} + width {1, 1, 0}] & ### points3D},
{Orange,
GraphicsComplex[points3D, Line[edges]]}},
Lighting -> "Neutral",
BoxRatios -> {1, 1, .6}]]

An algorithm to solve a simple(?) array problem

For this problem speed is pretty crucial. I've drawn a nice image to explain the problem better. The algorithm needs to calculate if edges of a rectangle continue within the confines of the canvas, will the edge intersect another rectangle?
We know:
The size of the canvas
The size of each rectangle
The position of each rectangle
The faster the solution is the better! I'm pretty stuck on this one and don't really know where to start.
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Cheers
Just create the set of intervals for each of the X and the Y axis. Then for each new rectangle, see if there are intersecting intervals in the X or the Y axis. See here for one way of implementing the interval sets.
In your first example, the interval set on the horizontal axis would be { [0-8], [0-8], [9-10] }, and on the vertical: { [0-3], [4-6], [0-4] }
This is only a sketch, I abstracted many details here (e.g. usually one would ask an interval set/tree "which intervals overlap this one", instead of "intersect this one", but nothing not doable).
Edit
Please watch this related MIT lecture (it's a bit long, but absolutely worths it).
Even if you find simpler solutions (than implementing an augmented red-black tree), it's good to know the ideas behind these things.
Lines that are not parallel to each other are going to intersect at some point. Calculate the slopes of each line and then determine what lines they won't intersect with.
Start with that, and then let's see how to optimize it. I'm not sure how your data is represented and I can't see your image.
Using slopes is a simple equality check which probably means you can take advantage of sorting the data. In fact, you can probably just create a set of distinct slopes. You'll have to figure out how to represent the data such that the two slopes of the same rectangle are not counted as intersecting.
EDIT: Wait.. how can two rectangles whose edges go to infinity not intersect? Rectangles are basically two lines that are perpendicular to each other. shouldn't that mean it always intersects with another if those lines are extended to infinity?
as long as you didn't mention the language you chose to solve the problem, i will use some kind of pseudo code
the idea is that if everything is ok, then a sorted collection of rectangle edges along one axis should be a sequence of non-overlapping intervals.
number all your rectangles, assigning them individual ids
create an empty binary tree collection (btc). this collection should have a method to insert an integer node with info btc::insert(key, value)
for all rectangles, do:
foreach rect in rects do
btc.insert(rect.top, rect.id)
btc.insert(rect.bottom, rect.id)
now iterate through the btc (this will give you a sorted order)
btc_item = btc.first()
do
id = btc_item.id
btc_item = btc.next()
if(id != btc_item.id)
then report_invalid_placement(id, btc_item.id)
btc_item = btc.next()
while btc_item is valid
5,7,8 - repeat steps 2,3,4 for rect.left and rect.right coordinates
I like this question. Here is my try to get on it:
If possible:
Create a polygon from each rectangle. Treat each edge as an line of maximum length that must be clipped. Use a clipping algorithm to check weather or not a line intersects with another. For example this one: Line Clipping
But keep in mind: If you find an intersection which is at the vertex position, its a valid one.
Here's an idea. Instead of creating each rectangle with (x, y, width, height), instantiate them with (x1, y1, x2, y2), or at least have it interpret these values given the width and height.
That way, you can check which rectangles have a similar x or y value and make sure the corresponding rectangle has the same secondary value.
Example:
The rectangles you have given have the following values:
Square 1: [0, 0, 8, 3]
Square 3: [0, 4, 8, 6]
Square 4: [9, 0, 10, 4]
First, we compare Square 1 to Square 3 (no collision):
Compare the x values
[0, 8] to [0, 8] These are exactly the same, so there's no crossover.
Compare the y values
[0, 4] to [3, 6] None of these numbers are similar, so they're not a factor
Next, we compare Square 3 to Square 4 (collision):
Compare the x values
[0, 8] to [9, 10] None of these numbers are similar, so they're not a factor
Compare the y values
[4, 6] to [0, 4] The rectangles have the number 4 in common, but 0 != 6, therefore, there is a collision
By know we know that a collision will occur, so the method will end, but lets evaluate Square 1 and Square 4 for some extra clarity.
Compare the x values
[0, 8] to [9, 10] None of these numbers are similar, so they're not a factor
Compare the y values
[0, 3] to [0, 4] The rectangles have the number 0 in common, but 3 != 4, therefore, there is a collision
Let me know if you need any extra details :)
Heh, taking the overlapping intervals answer to the extreme, you simply determine all distinct intervals along the x and y axis. For each cutting line, do an upper bound search along the axis it will cut based on the interval's starting value. If you don't find an interval or the interval does not intersect the line, then it's a valid line.
The slightly tricky part is to realize that valid cutting lines will not intersect a rectangle's bounds along an axis, so you can combine overlapping intervals into a single interval. You end up with a simple sorted array (which you fill in O(n) time) and a O(log n) search for each cutting line.

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