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creating a polygon using device

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James Connor
James Connor on 15 Nov 2015
Closed: MATLAB Answer Bot on 20 Aug 2021
I have 2 functions in matlab t.go (which moves my device 0.1 units forward starting at the origin, facing absolute right at the star) and t.turn(angle) which turns the device with an angle you input. How would I go about drawing I would say a 25 sided polygon around the origin who's distance from the origin to the edge of the polygon is 5.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 15 Nov 2015
Do you mean like this:
theta = 0 : 360/25 : 360;
x = 5 * sind(theta);
y = 5 * cosd(theta);
plot(x, y, 'b*-', 'LineWidth', 2);
grid on;
hold on;
axis square
% Draw lines from origin to the points in red
for k = 1 : length(y)
plot([0,x(k)], [0, y(k)], 'r-');
end
If you want the angle to turn from one side to head towards the next (x, y) location, that's just simple high school trigonometry that I would think you can handle. Let me know if you can't figure it out.

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 15 Nov 2015

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