How to extract only certain points contained in a segment?
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Hi everyone. I have the following problem. I have segments with a series of point.
For each segment I would like to consider only the point which is closest to a certain obstacle and then I would like to save these points in an n x 2 array where the first column of this array represents the x-coordinates of the points and the second column of the array represents the y-coordinates of the points. How can I do it?
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Image Analyst
on 15 Sep 2022
Try this, assuming you have your points in x and y, and your obstacle point is in x0, y0:
distances = sqrt((x - x0) .^ 2 + (y - y0) .^ 2);
[sortedDistances, sortOrder] = sort(distances, 'ascend');
Then you can take however many of the "close" points as you want. Like let's say you want the 9 closest points:
sortedx = x(sortOrder);
sortedy = y(sortOrder);
xClosest = sortedx(1 : 9);
yClosest = sortedy(1 : 9);
Or maybe you just want a list of all distances less than 30:
distances = sqrt((x - x0) .^ 2 + (y - y0) .^ 2);
% Get logical indexes of what points are closer than 30.
closeIndexes = distances < 30;
xClosest = x(closeIndexes);
yClosest = y(closeIndexes);
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