Hi all,
i need to draw a polygon (non-convex) into memory, so that i can query which pixels are inside the polygon and which not. I came across matplotlib which has some Polygon class in it so i presume i could use this (although so far, i didn't understand the terminology behind the library and how to string things together... patches? artists? O_O)
What is the easiest way to draw the filled polygon, defined by a sequence of points, into some 1bit raster, so that i can answer queries like "Is the pixel at [10, 12] inside the polygon?"
Cheers!
hi, did you find this?
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html?highlight=codex%20nxutils#test-whether-a-point-is-inside-a-polygon
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:48 PM, crwe crwe <crwe@...2525...> wrote:
Hi all,
i need to draw a polygon (non-convex) into memory, so that i can query which pixels are inside the polygon and which not. I came across matplotlib which has some Polygon class in it so i presume i could use this (although so far, i didn't understand the terminology behind the library and how to string things together... patches? artists? O_O)
What is the easiest way to draw the filled polygon, defined by a sequence of points, into some 1bit raster, so that i can answer queries like "Is the pixel at [10, 12] inside the polygon?"
Cheers!
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hi, did you find this?
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html?highlight=codex%20nxutils#test-whether-a-point-is-inside-a-polygon
I used the search function but no, i didn't find that link 
Shame on me and thank you Brent.
Looking at the implementation, it's really simple and i will do without matplotlib altogether and roll my own. In case anyone else needs this, the code is:
def insidePoly(x, y, xs, ys):
"""Decide whether point (x, y) lies inside the 2d polygon defined by its vertices zip(xs, ys).
"""
result = False
for now in xrange(len(xs)):
if (ys[now] < y and ys[now - 1] >= y) or (ys[now - 1] < y and ys[now] >= y):
if xs[now] + 1.0 * (y - ys[now]) * (xs[now - 1] - xs[now]) / (ys[now - 1] - ys[now]) < x:
result = not result
return result
crwe crwe wrote:
Looking at the implementation, it's really simple and i will do
without matplotlib altogether and roll my own.
It sounds like you have a solution, but if you need to test a LOT of points, it can be efficient to rasterize, and then get a lightning fast check.
It that case, though, I'd be inclined to use something like PIL's ImageDraw, rather than MPL -- all of MPL's scaling, anti-aliasing, etc. will just make it harder.
-Chris
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