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Find corners of a rotated rectangle given its center point and rotation

Can someone give me an algorithm that finds the position of all four corners of a rectangle if I know its center point(in global coordinate space), width and height, and its rotation around that center point?

clarification edit: The width and height I am referring to is the length of the sides of the rectangle.

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Chris Hansen Avatar asked Nov 29 '22 22:11

Chris Hansen


2 Answers

Top right corner has coordinates w/2, h/2 relative to the center. After rotation its absolute coordinates are

 x = cx + w/2 * Cos(Phi) - h/2 * Sin(Phi)
 y = cy + w/2 * Sin(Phi) + h/2 * Cos(Phi)
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MBo Avatar answered Dec 04 '22 13:12

MBo


If you need all of the corners, it just might be faster to create two perpendicular vectors from the center of the rectangle to both of its sides, and then to add/subtract these vectors to/from the center of the rectangle to form the points.

This might be faster, since you don't need to repeatedly call sin() and cos() functions (you do so only once for each).

Assuming we have a Vector library (for cleaner code - only helps with vector arithmetic), here is the code in Python:

def get_corners_from_rectangle(center: Vector, angle: float, dimensions: Vector):
   # create the (normalized) perpendicular vectors
   v1 = Vector(cos(angle), sin(angle))
   v2 = Vector(-v1[1], v1[0])  # rotate by 90

   # scale them appropriately by the dimensions
   v1 *= dimensions[0] / 2
   v2 *= dimensions[1] / 2

   # return the corners by moving the center of the rectangle by the vectors
   return [
      center + v1 + v2,
      center - v1 + v2,
      center - v1 - v2,
      center + v1 - v2,
   ]
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Tomáš Sláma Avatar answered Dec 04 '22 12:12

Tomáš Sláma