Thank. Better. Seems that angles are close to but not equal to pi/2. It may be because the plot box is not a square: the length of x-axis is not the same as the length of y-axis. Even curves y = x and y = 1-x look like not orthogonal but they should since multiplication of their slopes is -1. -james
plot(1:30,1:30,xlim=c(1,30),ylim=c(1,30),type="n", main = "Rotated rectangle looks like a parallelogram", asp=1) ## a rect at (10,20) with w = 3 and h = 2 x = 10 y = 20 w = 3 h = 2 x1=x-w y1=y-h x2=x+w y2=y-h x3=x+w y3=y+h x4=x-w y4=y+h polygon(c(x1,x2,x3,x4),c(y1,y2,y3,y4),border="blue") ##Rotate it at (10,20) by 45 degree theta = 45/180*pi x.rotated = c(10 + (x1-10)*cos(theta)-(y1-20)*sin(theta), 10 + (x2-10)*cos(theta)-(y2-20)*sin(theta), 10 + (x3-10)*cos(theta)-(y3-20)*sin(theta), 10 + (x4-10)*cos(theta)-(y4-20)*sin(theta)) y.rotated = c(20 + (x1-10)*sin(theta)+(y1-20)*cos(theta), 20 + (x2-10)*sin(theta)+(y2-20)*cos(theta), 20 + (x3-10)*sin(theta)+(y3-20)*cos(theta), 20 + (x4-10)*sin(theta)+(y4-20)*cos(theta)) polygon(x.rotated,y.rotated,border="red") > Your transformation assumes that the x- and y-axes are on the > same scale. Add 'asp = 1' to your plot() call to set the > appropriate aspect ratio. > > -Peter Ehlers > > > On 2010-06-09 10:13, g...@ucalgary.ca wrote: >> Rectangle R centered at (x,y) with width 2w and height 2h is given by >> >> x1=x-w >> y1=y-h >> x2=x+w >> y2=y-h >> x3=x+w >> y3=y+h >> x4=x-w >> y4=y+h >> polygon(c(x1,x2,x3,x4),c(y1,y2,y3,y4)) >> >> Rotating a point (u,v) at (0,0) by theta degree is given by matrix >> [cos(theta),-sin(theta) >> sin(theta),cos(theta)] >> so we have a new point >> (u*cos(theta)-v*sin(theta),u*sin(theta)+v*cos(theta)). >> >> Hence rotated R by theta at (x,y) is given by >> >> x.rotated = c(x + (x1-x)*cos(theta)-(y1-y)*sin(theta), >> x + (x2-x)*cos(theta)-(y2-y)*sin(theta), >> x + (x3-x)*cos(theta)-(y3-y)*sin(theta), >> x + (x4-x)*cos(theta)-(y4-y)*sin(theta)) >> y.rotated = c(y + (x1-x)*sin(theta)+(y1-y)*cos(theta), >> y + (x2-x)*sin(theta)+(y2-y)*cos(theta), >> y + (x3-x)*sin(theta)+(y3-y)*cos(theta), >> y + (x4-x)*sin(theta)+(y4-y)*cos(theta)) >> >> polygon(x.rotated,y.rotated) >> >> But it turns out to be a parallelogram with angles not equal to 90, >> not a rectangle. See R code below. >> >> Any way to improve this so that the rotated rectangle looks like a >> rectangle? Thanks, >> >> -james >> >> >> plot(1:10,1:10,xlim=c(1,20),ylim=c(1,40),type="n", main = "Rotated >> rectangle looks like a ") >> ## a rect at (10,20) with w = 3 and h = 2 >> x = 10 >> y = 20 >> w = 3 >> h = 2 >> x1=x-w >> y1=y-h >> x2=x+w >> y2=y-h >> x3=x+w >> y3=y+h >> x4=x-w >> y4=y+h >> polygon(c(x1,x2,x3,x4),c(y1,y2,y3,y4),border="blue") >> >> ##Rotate it at (10,10) by 45 degree >> theta = 45/180*pi >> x.rotated = c(10 + (x1-10)*cos(theta)-(y1-20)*sin(theta), >> 10 + (x2-10)*cos(theta)-(y2-20)*sin(theta), >> 10 + (x3-10)*cos(theta)-(y3-20)*sin(theta), >> 10 + (x4-10)*cos(theta)-(y4-20)*sin(theta)) >> y.rotated = c(20 + (x1-10)*sin(theta)+(y1-20)*cos(theta), >> 20 + (x2-10)*sin(theta)+(y2-20)*cos(theta), >> 20 + (x3-10)*sin(theta)+(y3-20)*cos(theta), >> 20 + (x4-10)*sin(theta)+(y4-20)*cos(theta)) >> >> polygon(x.rotated,y.rotated,border="red") >> >> >>> On 06/04/2010 01:21 AM, g...@ucalgary.ca wrote: >>>> boxed.labels draw text with box well. >>>> But, the box cannot be shadowed and srt = 45 seems not to work: >>>> text is rotated but the box does not. >>>> polygon.shadow can rotate and shadow but have to calculate its >>>> dimensions, >>>> based on the text length and size. >>>> Do you have any other way to draw text with rotated and shadowed box? >>> >>> The srt argument was intended to allow the user to rotate the text in >>> 90 >>> degree increments, and the box just changes shape to fit whatever is >>> in >>> it. The underlying function that draws the box (rect) doesn't have a >>> rotation argument. It would be possible to write a special function >>> using polygon, just do the calculations for box size and then rotate >>> the >>> text with srt= and the polygon by transforming the coordinates of the >>> vertices, as long as the default justification (center) is used. I >>> can't >>> do this right at the moment, but if you are really stuck I might be >>> able >>> to do it in the near future. >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.