AngleMarker

The AngleMarker class is a special Shape that draws an angle marker. Angle markers look like this:

An AngleMarker can have 1, 2 or 3 arcs. The 2 and 3 arc forms are often used to indicate that two angles are equal. You can also draw a right angle marker, as shown.

The AngleMarker only draws the arcs, it doesn't draw the lines that make up the angle. These would normally be draw using a Line object, Polygon object, or similar.

AngleMarker class

AngleMarker is derived from the Shape class. It adds several methods:

• of_points
• with_radius
• with_count
• with_gap
• as_right_angle

of_points

Creates a marker based on a 3 points.

of_points(a, b, c)

This will draw an angle marker for the angle formed by abc. The angle will be start at the line ab and be drawn in a clockwise direction to the line cb, with point b as the centre of the angle.

with_radius

Sets the radius of the arc.

with_radius(radius)

The default is 8.

with_count

Sets the number of arcs in the marker.

with_count(count)

This can be used to draw a single, double, or triple arc. Permitted values are 1, 2, or 3. Default is 1.

with_gap

Sets the gap between the arcs if count > 1.

with_gap(gap)

Sets the spacing of the arcs. This is only relevant if there is more than one arc (ie if count > 1), otherwise it is ignored.The default is 2.

For double of triple arcs, the set of arcs is centred on the requested radius. So for example if radius is 8 and gap is 2, and 3 arcs are specified, the arcs will have radii of 6, 8, and 10.

as_right_angle

Marks the angle as a right angle.

as_right_angle(right_angle=True)

The controls whether the angle should be drawn as a normal arc, or as a right angle symbol.

AngleMarker defaults to normal angle, so:

• AngleMarker with no call to as_right_angle() will draw a normal angle.
• AngleMarker with a call to as_right_angle() with no parameters will draw a right angle.
• AngleMarker with a call to as_right_angle(value) will be controlled by value.

Note that is a right angle is selected, the marker will attempt to draw a right angle symbol even if the angle isn't actually 90 degrees. This will create a strange effect. Only choose the right angle option if the angle is actually close to 90 degrees.

angle_marker function

This older angle_marker function is deprecated as of GenerativePy 3.1.

angle_marker(ctx, a, b, c, count=1, radius=8, gap=2, right_angle=False)

Draws an angle arc for the angle abc. The arc is centred on point b, and shows the angle between lines ab and cb in the clockwise direction.

If you are using a flipped coordinate system (see the setup function in the drawing module), the angle is drawn in the counterclockwise direction.

count allows you to draw double or triple arcs to indicate different pairs of equal angles. If count is not 1, gap sets the distance between the arcs - typically a value that is about twice the line thickness usually looks best.

right_angle can be set to true to draw a right angle marker rather than an arc. In that case, count is ignored.

Note that it is up to your code do ensure that the angle actually is a right angle before setting this. If you set this flag when the angle isn't a right angle (or very close), you will get strange looking result. If you don't set this flag when the angle is a right angle, a normal angle arc will be drawn. This is to avoid spurious effects in animations if a changing angle happens to be exactly 90 degrees in one frame/

Example

Here is an example that shows the angle_marker, tick and paratick functions in use:

from generativepy.drawing import make_image, setup
from generativepy.color import Color
from generativepy.geometry import line, polygon, angle_marker, tick, paratick

'''
Create rectangles using the geometry module.
'''

def draw(ctx, width, height, frame_no, frame_count):
    setup(ctx, width, height, background=Color(0.8))

    ctx.set_source_rgba(*Color(0, 0, 0.5))
    ctx.set_line_width(3)

    ## Draw lines with ticks and paraticks
    a = (50, 50)
    b = (50, 150)
    line(ctx, a, b)
    ctx.stroke()
    tick(ctx, a, b, length=12, gap=6)
    ctx.stroke()

    a = (100, 50)
    b = (150, 150)
    line(ctx, a, b)
    ctx.stroke()
    tick(ctx, a, b, 2, length=12, gap=6)
    ctx.stroke()

    a = (250, 50)
    b = (200, 150)
    line(ctx, a, b)
    ctx.stroke()
    tick(ctx, a, b, 3, length=12, gap=6)
    ctx.stroke()

    a = (350, 50)
    b = (350, 150)
    line(ctx, a, b)
    ctx.stroke()
    paratick(ctx, a, b, length=12, gap=6)
    ctx.stroke()

    a = (400, 50)
    b = (450, 150)
    line(ctx, a, b)
    ctx.stroke()
    paratick(ctx, a, b, 2, length=12, gap=6)
    ctx.stroke()

    a = (550, 150)
    b = (500, 50)
    line(ctx, a, b)
    ctx.stroke()
    paratick(ctx, a, b, 3, length=12, gap=6)
    ctx.stroke()

    ## Draw lines with angles
    a = (50, 250)
    b = (50, 450)
    c = (150, 450)
    polygon(ctx, (a, b, c), closed=False)
    ctx.stroke()
    angle_marker(ctx, a, b, c, radius=24, gap=6, right_angle=True)
    ctx.stroke()

    a = (250, 250)
    b = (200, 450)
    c = (300, 450)
    polygon(ctx, (a, b, c), closed=False)
    ctx.stroke()
    angle_marker(ctx, a, b, c, 3, radius=24, gap=6)
    ctx.stroke()

    a = (300, 250)
    b = (400, 300)
    c = (500, 300)
    polygon(ctx, (a, b, c), closed=False)
    ctx.stroke()
    angle_marker(ctx, c, b, a, radius=24, gap=6)
    ctx.stroke()

    a = (300, 350)
    b = (400, 400)
    c = (500, 400)
    polygon(ctx, (a, b, c), closed=False)
    ctx.stroke()
    angle_marker(ctx, a, b, c, 2, radius=24, gap=6)
    ctx.stroke()

make_image("/tmp/geometry-markers.png", draw, 600, 500)

See also

• Arrowhead
• Circle
• Ellipse
• Line
• Bezier
• Paratick
• Polygon
• RegularPolygon
• Rectangle
• Square
• Text
• Tick
• Triangle
• Path