NAME

Math::PlanePath::R5DragonMidpoint -- R5 dragon curve midpoints

SYNOPSIS

use Math::PlanePath::R5DragonMidpoint;
my $path = Math::PlanePath::R5DragonMidpoint->new;
my ($x, $y) = $path->n_to_xy (123);

DESCRIPTION

This is midpoints of the R5 dragon curve by Jorg Arndt,

                                   31--30                       11
                                    |   |
                                   32  29                       10
                                    |   |
           51--50          35--34--33  28--27--26                9
            |   |           |                   |
           52  49          36--37--38  23--24--25                8
            |   |                   |   |
   55--54--53  48--47--46  41--40--39  22                        7
    |                   |   |           |
   56--57--58  63--64  45  42  19--20--21                        6
            |   |   |   |   |   |
   81--80  59  62  65  44--43  18--17--16  11--10                5
    |   |   |   |   |                   |   |   |
   82  79  60--61  66--67--68          15  12   9                4
    |   |                   |           |   |   |
..-83  78--77--76  71--70--69          14--13   8-- 7-- 6        3
                |   |                                   |
               75  72                           3-- 4-- 5        2
                |   |                           |
               74--73                           2                1
                                                |
                                            0-- 1           <- Y=0

    ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^
  -10  -9  -8  -7  -6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1  X=0  1   2   3

The points are the middle of each edge of the R5DragonCurve, rotated -45 degrees, shrunk by sqrt(2). and shifted to the origin.

          *--11--*     *--7--*     R5DragonCurve
          |      |     |     |     and its midpoints
         12     10     8     6
          |      |     |     |
   *--17--*--13--*--9--*--5--*
   |      |      |     |
  18     16     14     4
   |      |      |     |
..-*      *--15--*     *--3--*
                             |
                             2
                             |
                       +--1--*

Arms

Multiple copies of the curve can be selected, each advancing successively. Like the main R5DragonCurve this midpoint curve covers 1/4 of the plane and 4 arms rotated by 0, 90, 180, 270 degrees mesh together perfectly. With 4 arms all integer X,Y points are visited.

arms => 4 begins as follows. N=0,4,8,12,16,etc is the first arm (the same shape as the plain curve above), then N=1,5,9,13,17 the second, N=2,6,10,14 the third, etc.

arms=>4     76--80-...                                6
             |
            72--68--64  44--40                        5
                     |   |   |
            25--21  60  48  36                        4
             |   |   |   |   |
            29  17  56--52  32--28--24  75--79        3
             |   |                   |   |   |
    41--37--33  13-- 9-- 5  12--16--20  71  83        2
     |                   |   |           |   |
    45--49--53   6-- 2   1   8  59--63--67  ...       1
             |   |           |   |
... 65--61--57  10   3   0-- 4  55--51--47        <- Y=0
 |   |           |   |                   |
81  69  22--18--14   7--11--15  35--39--43           -1
 |   |   |                   |   |
77--73  26--30--34  54--58  19  31                   -2
                 |   |   |   |   |
                38  50  62  23--27                   -3
                 |   |   |
                42--46  66--70--74                   -4
                                 |
                        ...-82--78                   -5

 ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^   ^
-6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1  X=0  1   2   3   4   5

FUNCTIONS

See "FUNCTIONS" in Math::PlanePath for behaviour common to all path classes.

$path = Math::PlanePath::R5DragonMidpoint->new ()

Create and return a new path object.

($x,$y) = $path->n_to_xy ($n)

Return the X,Y coordinates of point number $n on the path. Points begin at 0 and if $n < 0 then the return is an empty list.

Fractional positions give an X,Y position along a straight line between the integer positions.

$n = $path->n_start()

Return 0, the first N in the path.

Level Methods

($n_lo, $n_hi) = $path->level_to_n_range($level)

Return (0, 5**$level - 1), or for multiple arms return (0, $arms * 5**$level - 1).

There are 5^level segments comprising the curve, or arms*5^level when multiple arms, numbered starting from 0.

FORMULAS

X,Y to N

An X,Y point can be turned into N by dividing out digits of a complex base 1+2i. At each step the low base-5 digit is formed from X,Y and an adjustment applied to move X,Y to a multiple of 1+2i ready to divide out.

A 10x10 table is used for the digit and adjustments, indexed by Xmod10 and Ymod10. There's probably an a*X+b*Y mod 5 or mod 20 for a smaller table. But in any case once the adjustment is found the result is

Ndigit = digit_table[X mod 10, Y mod 10]  # low to high
Xm = X + Xadj_table [X mod 10, Y mod 10]
Ym = Y + Yadj_table [X mod 10, Y mod 10]

new X,Y = (Xm,Ym) / (1+2i)
        = (Xm,Ym) * (1-2i) / 5
        = ((Xm+2*Ym)/5, (Ym-2*Xm)/5)

These X,Y reductions eventually reach one of the starting points for the four arms

X,Y endpoint   Arm        +---+---+
------------   ---        | 2 | 1 |  Y=1
    0, 0        0         +---+---+     
    0, 1        1         | 3 | 0 |  Y=0
   -1, 1        2         +---+---+     
   -1, 0        3         X=-1 X=0      

For arms 1 and 3 the digits must be flipped 4-digit, so 0,1,2,3,4 -> 4,3,2,1,0. The arm number and hence whether this flip is needed is not known until reaching the endpoint.

if arm odd
then  N = 5^numdigits - 1 - N

If only some of the arms are of interest then reaching one of the other arm numbers means the original X,Y was outside the desired curve.

SEE ALSO

Math::PlanePath, Math::PlanePath::R5DragonCurve

Math::PlanePath::DragonMidpoint, Math::PlanePath::TerdragonMidpoint

HOME PAGE

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/math-planepath/index.html

LICENSE

Copyright 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Kevin Ryde

This file is part of Math-PlanePath.

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