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June 30th, 2009, 05:42 PM
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| | Coordinate system translation Hello everyone. I'm having trouble with what I believe to be a translation issue. Here is the deal.
Say I have a rectangle in 2D space that is define as follows
(.38,.42) (.62,.42)
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(.38,.58) (.62,.58)
I need to translate it to this system:
(0,0) (1,0)
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(0,1) (1,1)
The translation has to be somewhat dynamic such that if the rectangle has different dimensions than those listed above, I can still translate to the system (0,0) - (1,1).
If possible, an algebraic solution for x and y would be even better.
I'm totally stumped here, can anyone assist? | 
June 30th, 2009, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by dsoltyka Hello everyone. I'm having trouble with what I believe to be a translation issue. Here is the deal.
Say I have a rectangle in 2D space that is define as follows
(.38,.42) (.62,.42)
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|______________________ |
(.38,.58) (.62,.58)
I need to translate it to this system:
(0,0) (1,0)
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|______________________ |
(0,1) (1,1)
The translation has to be somewhat dynamic such that if the rectangle has different dimensions than those listed above, I can still translate to the system (0,0) - (1,1).
If possible, an algebraic solution for x and y would be even better.
I'm totally stumped here, can anyone assist? | Lets say that the original co-ordinates are (a,c),(b,c),(a,d),(b,d)
where in you question a=.38, b=.62, c=.42,d=.58
and, let x,y be the old co-ordinate axes and X,Y be the new co-ordinate axes
then, the transformation equations are
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June 30th, 2009, 09:37 PM
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| | Forgive my ignorance, but I am unsure how to use those translation formulas to solve my problem.
I'm confused about the numerators of each one. I'm not sure what values to use for the old axis. Can you possibly provide an example of how .38 can become 0 and .62 can become 1? I'd really love to understand this a bit better, thank you. | 
June 30th, 2009, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by dsoltyka Forgive my ignorance, but I am unsure how to use those translation formulas to solve my problem.
I'm confused about the numerators of each one. I'm not sure what values to use for the old axis. Can you possibly provide an example of how .38 can become 0 and .62 can become 1? I'd really love to understand this a bit better, thank you. | the formula I gave
in your question, a=.38, b=.62
hence formula for this question becomes
if x=.38,X=  ...which is zero.
if x=.62,X=  ...which is one.
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