Let's imagine we have a plane with some points on it. We also have a circle of given radius.
I need an algorithm that determines such position of the circle that it covers maximal possible number of points. Of course, there are many such positions, so the algorithm should return one of them.
Precision is not important and the algorithm may do small mistakes.
Here is an example picture:
Input:
int n
(n<=50) – number of points;
float x[n]
and float y[n]
– arrays with points' X and Y coordinates;
float r
– radius of the circle.
Output:
float cx
and float cy
– coordinates of the circle's center
Lightning speed of the algorithm is not required, but it shouldn't be too slow (because I know a few slow solutions for this situation).
C++ code is preferred, but not obligatory.
There are only 3 points lie inside or on the circumference of the circle.
Then we can use the radius to find the circle's leftmost and rightmost points. The equation of a circle in standard form is (x−h)2+(y−k)2=r2, where (h,k) is the center, and r is the radius of the circle. The ordered pair (x,y) represents any point on the circle.
Edited to better wording, as suggested :
Basic observations :
The algorithm is then:
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