Plotting a circle and finding intersections

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Atiqah Zakirah
Atiqah Zakirah on 23 May 2017
Commented: KSSV on 24 May 2017
I am trying to plot a circle using existing data I have and find the points where the circle intersect grid lines. I randomly picked a set of coordinates from the data to be used as the center point of the circle. However, the code I have isn't displaying the circle. When I run the code, it says there is an error in the line "plot(Q(1,:),Q(2,:),'.b')". Can anyone solve this problem? Thanks in advance!
nc = 1; % number of circle
r = 10; % radius
th = linspace(0,2*pi);
iwant = cell(nc,1);
for i = i:nc
% get center of circle
x = center(:,2); % x coordinate
y = center(:,3); % y coordinate
% circle coordinates
cx = x+r*cos(th);
cy = y+r*sin(th);
plot(cx,cy,'k');
% get intersection
Q = cell(1,[]) ;
count = 0 ;
% loop along lines parallel to x-axes
for j = 1:N
P = InterX([cx ;cy],[X(j,:) ; Y(j,:)]) ;
if ~isempty(P)
count = count+1 ;
Q{count} = P ;
end
end
% loop along lines parallel to y-axes
for k = 1:N
P = InterX([cx ;cy],[X(:,k)' ; Y(:,k)']) ;
if ~isempty(P)
count = count+1 ;
Q{count} = P ;
end
end
Q = cell2mat(Q) ;
plot(Q(1,:),Q(2,:),'.b')
iwant{i} = Q ;
end
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Atiqah Zakirah
Atiqah Zakirah on 24 May 2017
Thank you for the help! I made some changes to the code. I have troubling integrating my code with the code you provided. Instead of getting random center of the circle, I'm getting random coordinates from my data set to be the center of my circle this time. When I make this change to the code, it presents me with an error.
Index exceeds matrix dimensions error: P = InterX([cx ;cy],[X(:,k)' ; Y(:,k)']) ; Error: plot(Q(1,:),Q(2,:),'g');
%%create grid
N = 30;
xgrid = linspace(103.6,104,N);
ygrid = linspace(1.25,1.5,N);
[X,Y] = meshgrid(xgrid,ygrid);
figure
hold on
plot(X,Y,'r');
plot(X',Y','r');
xlim([103.6 104])
ylim([1.25 1.5])
%%plot points
plot(coordinates(:,2),coordinates(:,3),'.');
plot (train(:,1),train(:,2),'x');
%%obtaining random coordinates
row = randi(size(coordinates,1),1); % generates random row number
% obtain x and y coordinates from selected row
center = coordinates(row,:);
%%create a circle using center
nc = 1; % number of circle
R = 30; % radius
th = linspace(0,2*pi);
iwant = cell(nc,1);
for i = i:nc
% get center of circle
x = center(:,2); % x coordinate
y = center(:,3); % y coordinate
% circle coordinates
cx = x+R*cos(th);
cy = y+R*sin(th);
plot(cx,cy,'k');
% get intersection
Q = cell(1,[]) ;
count = 0 ;
% loop along lines parallel to x-axes
for j = 1:N
P = InterX([cx ;cy],[X(j,:) ; Y(j,:)]) ;
if ~isempty(P)
count = count+1 ;
Q{count} = P ;
end
end
% loop along lines parallel to y-axes
for k = 1:N
P = InterX([cx ;cy],[X(:,k)' ; Y(:,k)']) ;
if ~isempty(P)
count = count+1 ;
Q{count} = P ;
end
end
Q = cell2mat(Q) ;
plot(Q(1,:),Q(2,:),'g');
iwant{i} = Q ;
end
KSSV
KSSV on 24 May 2017
coordinates and train are missing..

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