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Raikish
Hi,
I’m trying to recognize a form like in the image. it’s like spiral. Not need to be exactly this form, a six will be valid for example. the form can be done from the center to outside or outside to center.
I stored all points in array, so i can know what is the path that user have done.
You could calculate the vector between each successive point and check the difference of angle between them. If the sum of all the angles reaches TAU (or 2*PI), the path can be considered circling once.
Something like this (disclaimer: pseudocode, not tested)
var vectors = []
for i in range(1, len(points)):
var previous = points[i - 1]
var current = points[i]
vectors.append(current - previous)
var total_angle = 0.0
for i in range(1, len(vectors)):
var previous = vectors[i - 1]
var current = vectors[i]
total_angle += previous.angle_to(current)
if total_angle >= TAU:
print("You circled once counter-clockwise")
elif total_angle <= -TAU:
print("You circled once clockwise")
Note that this algorithm does not account for any going-backs (if you care, check changes of sign of the angles) and doesn’t use a center.