wk3 Prog Assign Collinear Points PDF
wk3 Prog Assign Collinear Points PDF
wk3 Prog Assign Collinear Points PDF
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Computer vision involves analyzing patterns in visual images and reconstructing the real-world objects that produced them. The process in
often broken up into two phases: feature detection and pattern recognition . Feature detection involves selecting important features of the
image; pattern recognition involves discovering patterns in the features. We will investigate a particularly clean pattern recognition
problem involving points and line segments. This kind of pattern recognition arises in many other applications such as statistical data
analysis.
The problem. Given a set of N distinct points in the plane, draw every (maximal) line segment that connects a subset of 4 or more of the
points.
Point data type. Create an immutable data type Point that represents a point in the plane by implementing the following API:
public int compareTo(Point that) // is this point lexicographically smaller than that point
public double slopeTo(Point that) // the slope between this point and that point
}
To get started, use the data type Point.java, which implements the constructor and the draw(), drawTo(), and toString() methods. Your
job is to add the following components.
The compareTo() method should compare points by their y-coordinates, breaking ties by their x-coordinates. Formally, the invoking
point (x 0, y0) is less than the argument point ( x 1, y1) if and only if either y0 < y1 or if y0 = y1 and x 0 < x 1.
The slopeTo() method should return the slope between the invoking point ( x 0, y0) and the argument point ( x 1, y1), which is given
by the formula ( y1 − y0) / (x 1 − x 0). Treat the slope of a horizontal line segment as positive zero [added 7/29] ; treat the slope of a
vertical line segment as positive infinity; treat the slope of a degenerate line segment (between a point and itself) as negative
infinity.
The SLOPE_ORDER comparator should compare points by the slopes they make with the invoking point ( x 0, y0). Formally, the point
(x 1, y1) is less than the point ( x 2, y2) if and only if the slope ( y1 − y0) / (x 1 − x 0) is less than the slope (y2 − y0) / (x 2 − x 0). Treat
horizontal, vertical, and degenerate line segments as in the slopeTo() method.
Brute force. Write a program Brute.java that examines 4 points at a time and checks whether they all lie on the same line segment,
printing out any such line segments to standard output and drawing them using standard drawing. To check whether the 4 points p, q, r, and
s are collinear, check whether the slopes between p and q, between p and r, and between p and s are all equal.
The order of growth of the running time of your program should be N4 in the worst case and it should use space proportional to N.
A faster, sorting-based solution. Remarkably, it is possible to solve the problem much faster than the brute-force solution described
above. Given a point p, the following method determines whether p participates in a set of 4 or more collinear points.
Check if any 3 (or more) adjacent points in the sorted order have equal slopes with respect to p. If so, these points, together with p,
are collinear.
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Applying this method for each of the N points in turn yields an efficient algorithm to the problem. The algorithm solves the problem
because points that have equal slopes with respect to p are collinear, and sorting brings such points together. The algorithm is fast because
the bottleneck operation is sorting.
Write a program Fast.java that implements this algorithm. The order of growth of the running time of your program should be N2 log N in
the worst case and it should use space proportional to N.
APIs. [Added 7/25] Each program should take the name of an input file as a command-line argument, read the input file (in the format
specified below), print to standard output the line segments discovered (in the format specified below), and draw to standard draw the line
segments discovered (in the format specified below). Here are the APIs.
Input format. Read the points from an input file in the following format: An integer N, followed by N pairs of integers ( x, y), each between 0
and 32,767. Below are two examples.
Output format. Print to standard output the line segments that your program discovers, one per line. Print each line segment as an ordered
sequence of its constituent points, separated by " -> ".
For full credit, do not print permutations of points on a line segment (e.g., if you output p→q→r→s, do not also output either s→r→q→p or
p→r→q→s). Also, for full credit in Fast.java, do not print or plot subsegments of a line segment containing 5 or more points (e.g., if you
output p→q→r→s→t, do not also output either p→q→s→t or q→r→s→t); you may print out such subsegments in Brute.java.
Deliverables. Submit only Brute.java, Fast.java, and Point.java. We will supply stdlib.jar and algs4.jar. Your may not call any
library functions other than those in java.lang, java.util, stdlib.jar, and algs4.jar.