Re: Curve Tracking and fetching Locator coordinates
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- Subject: [mg119490] Re: Curve Tracking and fetching Locator coordinates
- From: "Alexei Boulbitch" <boulbitch at gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 06:24:31 -0400 (EDT)
This is straightforward. If your Locator coordinates are denoted as pt, and a function along which you want to move the Locator is f[x], then you simply need to use the construction:
Locator[Dynamic[{pt[[1]], f[pt[[1]]]
}
]
]
The function entitled "alongTheCurve" plots a curve f[x] from xMin to xMax and the locator slides along this curve. The value of locator can be seen in the upper right corner of the plot:
alongTheCurve[f_, xMin_, xMax_] :=
DynamicModule[{pt = {xMin, f[xMin]}},
(* The Plot and the Locator are combined by Show *)
Show[{
(* Here is the plot of your curve *)
Plot[f[x], {x, xMin, xMax},
(* This is the inset into the plot showing the locator value *)
Epilog ->
Inset[Style[Dynamic[{pt[[1]], f[pt[[1]]]}], Red, 14],
Scaled[{0.8, 0.8}]]],
(* This part draws the locator *)
Graphics[Locator[Dynamic[{pt[[1]], f[pt[[1]]]}]]]
}]
];
Try this:
alongTheCurve[Sin, 0, 2 \[Pi]]
alongTheCurve[Cos, 0, 2 \[Pi]]
This function will not work in case you give it the combination of the functions like
alongTheCurve[Sin+Cos, 0, 2 \[Pi]]
Anyway, my aim is not to give a general solution, but only to show one possible way to answer your question.
Have fun, Alexei
Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to constrain a locator's movement along
a curve, but then fetch the coordinates of the locator to use in a
calculation.
The documentation has an example of a Locator moving along a circle, but
it's strange, because the way they do it using Normalize seems to make it
not clear how to access the coordinates of the locator.
This is the example code from the Locator documentation:
DynamicModule[{pt = {1, 0}},
Graphics[{Circle[], Locator[Dynamic[pt, (pt = Normalize[#]) &]]},
PlotRange -> 2]]
I'm guessing the normalize function is being applied to the locator
position, and turning it into a unit vector (not entirely clear on how that
works in the code though). That has the effect of tracking the locator on a
unit circe But there is no variable for the locator positon. pt is simply a
list of constants {1,0} (although, I don't understand that entirely either,
because it also appears to be set to simply being a Normalize function)
Anyway, if someone could give me a hint as to what is going on in that code
I would much appreciate it (documentation seems sparse on the locator)
Barring that could someone just give me a quick hack for fetching the
locator's coordinates when it is being tracked along a circle (or better yet
if it is being tracked along an arbitrary curve.)?
Admittedly I have a foggy grasp about how Dynamic modules work, I'm able to
do basic stuff, but it starts to get unwieldy if I branch out.
Thank you for any help :)
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