Re: drawing polygon diagonals
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- Subject: [mg123949] Re: drawing polygon diagonals
- From: Chris Young <cy56 at comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 02:30:08 -0500 (EST)
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On 2010-09-08 04:58:31 +0000, MH said: > Hi, > > This seems basic but it has me stumped. I'm trying to illustrate the > idea of the "handshake problem", where small circles represent people > and the lines between the circles represent handshakes. With the code > below, I'm able to show (and manipulate) any number of circles, and > I'm also able to show the lines between adjacent circles. This just > generates a polygon whose vertices are all connected, as it should. > But how can I update my code to show the diagonals, too, and not just > the sides of the polygon? I'm not sure what to add. To get some practice with GraphicsComplex, I spent some time figuring out how to distinguish the diagonals from the other line segments. Thanks very much to the others who explained GraphicsComplex. It looks like a big time-saver. It must also help when figuring out shared borders of polygons, since the indices are just integers, rather than the real numbers you'd need to match up vertices. There's a screen shot at http://home.comcast.net/~cy56/DiagonalsOfPolygon.png and a notebook at http://home.comcast.net/~cy56/DiagonalsOfPolygon.nb I use short horizontal lines, via the keyboard shortcut esc-hline-esc (where "esc" stands for the Escape key) to distinguish any names I use starting with a capital letter from Mathematica's functions. I use two of them in a row to separate words in a Boolean flag, such as "show_border", since we can't use the underscore character, which is reserved for pattern matching. Apparently, Mathematica will allow a lot of these special characters in names, which is very handy. Manipulate[ Module[ {P = \[HorizontalLine]CrcPts[n]}, Graphics[ GraphicsComplex[ P, { PointSize[Large], If[show\[HorizontalLine]\[HorizontalLine]points, Table[{Hue[(k - 1)/n], Point[k], Black, Text[k, P[[k]], -2.5*P[[k]]]}, {k, 1, n}] ], If[show\[HorizontalLine]\[HorizontalLine]border, {Thick, Line[Range[1, n]~Append~1]} ], If[show\[HorizontalLine]\[HorizontalLine]diagonals, {Thin, Dashed, Line[Select[ Subsets[Range[1, n], {2}], #[[2]] - #[[1]] > 1 &]]} ] } ]]], {{show\[HorizontalLine]\[HorizontalLine]points, True}, {True, False}}, {{show\[HorizontalLine]\[HorizontalLine]border, True}, {True, False}}, {{show\[HorizontalLine]\[HorizontalLine]diagonals, True}, {True, False}}, {{n, 6}, 2, 12, 1} ]