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* METAPOST subpath rounding issue
@ 2020-05-07 19:28 Gerben Wierda
  2020-05-07 22:46 ` ntg
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From: Gerben Wierda @ 2020-05-07 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I have a METAPOST algorithm that splits a path at a certain time in two, does something with both ends (not the ends where they were split) and then rejoins them.

In very rare cases this crashes, because the subpath doesn’t work as expected.

      firstPart := subpath (0,halfWayTime) of workingConn;
      secondPart := subpath (halfWayTime,pathTimeLen) of workingConn;

may sometimes result in something like this:

metapost log    > >> Path at line 0:
metapost log    > (273,-427)..controls (259.50666666666666,-427) and (246.01333333333335,-427)
metapost log    >  ..(232.52000000000001,-427)
metapost log    > 
metapost log    > >> Path at line 0:
metapost log    > (232.51999999999998,-427)..controls (161.68000000000001,-427) and (90.840000000
metapost log    > 000003,-427)
metapost log    >  ..(20,-427)

As can be seen in these (rare) cases the two calls to subpath result in a different point resulting from both. so, when I later try to rejoin them with & it fails:

metapost log    > ! Paths don't touch; '&' will be changed to '..'.
metapost log    > <to be read again> 

Which means subpath doesn’t always exactly do what I expect it to do (and many explanations, but not the official manual) state. Again, this is rare.

I’ve done this to work around it but I wondered if there was a better (reliable) solution

      save cutFirstPart; path cutFirstPart; cutFirstPart := firstPart maxcutbefore fromPicOutline;
      save cutSecondPart; path cutSecondPart; cutSecondPart := secondPart maxcutafter toPicOutline;
      if ((xpart point 0 of cutSecondPart) <> (xpart point infinity of cutFirstPart))
        or ((ypart point 0 of cutSecondPart) <> (ypart point infinity of cutFirstPart)):
        resultConn := cutFirstPart--cutSecondPart;
      else:
        resultConn := cutFirstPart & cutSecondPart;
      fi

G

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