Question

I want to develop a kind of wheel of fortune in Java/Android. When the user touch the screen, i detect the mouvement and for each changes, i calculate the angle between the old pressure et the newest (function onScroll). I’ve a problem because i don’t remember how i can calculate the angle between 3 points…

I develop 3 functions but each one give me a various result :

public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Test test = new Test();

    Point center = new Point(2.26f, 2.26f);
    Point current = new Point(2.54f, 3.64f);
    Point previous = new Point(2.25f, 3.73f);

    System.out.println("1) Angle is "
            + test.function1(center, current, previous));
    System.out.println("2) Angle is "
            + test.function2(center, current, previous));
    System.out.println("3) Angle is "
            + test.function3(center, current, previous));
    System.out.println("################################");

    center = new Point(2.26f, 2.26f);
    previous = new Point(3.29f, 1.04f);
    current = new Point(0.98f, 2.25f);
    System.out.println("1) Angle is "
            + test.function1(center, current, previous));
    System.out.println("2) Angle is "
            + test.function2(center, current, previous));
    System.out.println("3) Angle is "
            + test.function3(center, current, previous));
    System.out.println("################################");

    center = new Point(226.0f, 226.0f);
    previous = new Point(225.21994f, 373.3158f);
    current = new Point(254.31085f, 364.05264f);
    System.out.println("1) Angle is "
            + test.function1(center, current, previous));
    System.out.println("2) Angle is "
            + test.function2(center, current, previous));
    System.out.println("3) Angle is "
            + test.function3(center, current, previous));
    System.out.println("################################");
}

public double function1(Point center, Point current, Point previous) {

    double ang1 = Math.atan((previous.getdY() - center.getdY())
            / (previous.getdX() - center.getdX()));
    double ang2 = Math.atan((current.getdY() - center.getdY())
            / (current.getdX() - center.getdX()));
    double rslt = ang1 - ang2;

    return Math.toDegrees(rslt) * -1;
}

private double function2(Point center, Point current, Point previous) {
    float dx = current.getdX() - center.getdX();
    float dy = current.getdY() - center.getdY();
    double a = Math.atan2(dy, dx);

    float dpx = previous.getdX() - center.getdX();
    float dpy = previous.getdY() - center.getdY();
    double b = Math.atan2(dpy, dpx);

    double diff = a - b;
    double degres = Math.toDegrees(diff);
    return degres;
}

public double function3(Point center, Point current, Point previous) {
    Point p1 = new Point(current.getdX() - center.getdX(), current.getdY()
            - center.getdY());
    Point p2 = new Point(previous.getdX() - center.getdX(),
            previous.getdY() - previous.getdY());
    double angle = Math.atan2(p1.getdY() - p2.getdY(),
            p1.getdX() - p2.getdX());

    return Math.toDegrees(angle);
}

}

I found this function on the net but i can’t know which is the best.

Can you help me ?

Answer 1

Create two vectors out of the points and use dot product.