polygon from polyline?

Question

I am trying to create a polygon from a polyline automatically So far I am stuck with the proper calculation of the extrapolated sides on each part of the polyline.

Condition - the distance between the base line, and the sides is a constant.

• How to calculate the corner points of the sides (blue points) from the base points (red ones )?

Answer 1

This is my code in Qt. This works fine for me

    QPolygonF projectPLineToScreenAsPolygon(QPolygonF pline, qreal halfWidth)
{
QPolygonF ret;
QLineF l2_last;
QLineF l4_last;
for(int i = 0; i < pline.size() - 2; i++){

float x1 = pline.at(i).x();
float y1 = pline.at(i).y();

float x2 = pline.at(i + 1).x();
float y2 = pline.at(i + 1).y();

float x3 = pline.at(i + 2).x();
float y3 = pline.at(i + 2).y();

float dist = sqrt(((x1-x2)*(x1-x2))+((y1-y2)*(y1-y2)));
float dist2 = sqrt(((x3-x2)*(x3-x2))+((y3-y2)*(y3-y2)));

QLineF l1;
QLineF l2;
QLineF l3;
QLineF l4;

if(i > 0){
l1 = l2_last;
l3 = l4_last;

l2 = QLineF (QPointF(x2 + halfWidth * (y3 - y2) / dist2, y2 + halfWidth * (x2 - x3) / dist2), QPointF(x3 + halfWidth * (y3 - y2) / dist2, y3 + halfWidth * (x2 - x3) / dist2));
l4 = QLineF (QPointF(x2 - halfWidth * (y3 - y2) / dist2, y2 - halfWidth * (x2 - x3) / dist2), QPointF(x3 - halfWidth * (y3 - y2) / dist2, y3 - halfWidth * (x2 - x3) / dist2));
} else {
l2 = QLineF (QPointF(x2 + halfWidth * (y3 - y2) / dist2, y2 + halfWidth * (x2 - x3) / dist2), QPointF(x3 + halfWidth * (y3 - y2) / dist2, y3 + halfWidth * (x2 - x3) / dist2));
l4 = QLineF (QPointF(x2 - halfWidth * (y3 - y2) / dist2, y2 - halfWidth * (x2 - x3) / dist2), QPointF(x3 - halfWidth * (y3 - y2) / dist2, y3 - halfWidth * (x2 - x3) / dist2));

l1 = QLineF (QPointF(x1 + halfWidth * (y2 - y1) / dist, y1 + halfWidth * (x1 - x2) / dist), QPointF(x2 + halfWidth * (y2 - y1) / dist, y2 + halfWidth * (x1 - x2) / dist));
l3 = QLineF (QPointF(x1 - halfWidth * (y2 - y1) / dist, y1 - halfWidth * (x1 - x2) / dist), QPointF(x2 - halfWidth * (y2 - y1) / dist, y2 - halfWidth * (x1 - x2) / dist));
}
l2_last = l2;
l4_last = l4;

QPointF pi1;

if(i == 0){
ret.append(l1.p1());
ret.prepend(l3.p1());
}

if(l1.intersect(l2, &pi1) != QLineF::NoIntersection){
ret.append(pi1);
} else {
ret.append(l2.p1());
}

QPointF pi2;
if(l3.intersect(l4, &pi2) != QLineF::NoIntersection){
ret.prepend(pi2);
} else {
ret.prepend(l4.p1());
}

if(i == pline.size() - 3){
ret.append(l2.p2());
ret.append(l4.p2());
}
}
return ret;
}