Edit: spelling
I needed a component “Circle From Two Points and a Radius” and couldn’t find one, so I made one myself. I figured someone else may also have use for it so I upload it here.
The Circle center can land on either side of the line A–>B. Default is on the Right side (as illustrated below). The F input Flips the circle to land on the other side.
The component outputs a Circle and it’s Circle Center.
The math is a bit ugly but someone smarter than me perhaps can hint about a simplification.
Fig. A C# Component and a GH definition doing the same thing.
I’m not on a PC right now so I don’t know if you used polar coordinates. An algorithm with those I have in mind is like so:
create a transformation T remapping A and B to a coordinate system with the origin in A and the x-axis AB and transform A and B
calculate the height h of the triangle ABCCh = \sqrt{r^2 - \frac{(AB)^2}{4}}
calculate the angle \alpha formed between AB and ACC\sin{\alpha} = \frac{h}{r}
define a polar coordinate system with origin in A and zero rotation parallel to AB
construct CC_{\alpha} in polar coordinates CC_{\alpha} = (r,-\alpha)
calculate the carthesian coordinates of CC, since we chose our cathesian and polar coordinate systems conveniently, this is quite simple: CC = (r\cos{-\alpha},r\sin{-\alpha})
Transform CC back to the original coordinate system by transforming with T^{-1}
There are probably some sign errors in the math, but in theory this should work and be quite fast to calculate.
