Interesting Math Problem

Monday 6 November 2006 - Filed under Maths&Physics

There are n dots, p red ones and q blue ones. The target is to link up the red ones without having cross overs, e.g.

To produces this,


To solve this problem. I consider all the red dots lie originally on a perfect circle and this irregular pattern is produced by moving the dots further or closer to the center of the circle. So, I first calculated the center point of all dots, centerX=(x1+x2+…+xn)/n, centerY=(y1+y2+…+yn)/n. Using a center point, I calculate the angle of a dot as angle1=Math.atan2(y1-centerY, x1-centerX). All the dots are sorted by their angles and linked clockwise or counterclockwise.
Not something difficult but quite interesting .

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