Any updates?
On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 15:05 +0200, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
2015-05-31 3:21 GMT+02:00 Nathan Hurst <njh@...1927...>:
Did you come up with the mu intersection approach? that's rather neat.
Nope, I mostly copied that from this document. No point reinventing the wheel :) http://maptools.home.comcast.net/~maptools/BivariateQuadratics.pdf
It can still be improved a little - when two very thin and long ellipses intersect at two points, the results of one of the ellipse-line intersections will have much better accuracy, because the resulting line intersects it at less shallow angles. I could pick the ellipse where the cross product of the unit versor of the major axis and the unit versor of the line is larger, but it's not yet obvious to me that this always gives the better result.
In any case, for now I'm focusing on how to solve the problem of overlapping segments, since it's the only major thing missing from the algorithm. Then I'll focus on testing various edge cases, and conversion from nonzero to even-odd fill rules.
Your approach made me wonder whether there is a nice analytic solution for nearest_point for conic section pairs too. Basically you want to find points with matched normals, which is, in your notation, mu dQ + dR = 0.
The derivative of an ellipse is another ellipse at the origin, so it would definitely be doable for ellipses. I'm not yet sure about other conic sections.
Regards, Krzysztof
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