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- From: sonix@schunix.uucp (Duane Morin)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Overlapping area under a spiral?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.200552.18232@schunix.uucp>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:05:52 GMT
- Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
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- Question: A current project involves scanning a particular image area with
- a transducer in a spiralled pattern. We need to cover a known area size with
- our scan. Can someone help us with the math for calculating the area under
- a spiral?
-
- Our problem lies in the overlap. the transducer face is 3/8" (sorry for
- the english units) radius. Roughly, the area that we want it's center to
- travel is 1/8". Along the spiral that we draw we will select 9 points
- in a 3x3 grid, meaning that there will be overlap at each reading of some
- of the area from the reading at a different point. What we need to know
- is the total area that will be covered by the scan, constrained to a few
- variables that we can fiddle with.
-
- What we're working with:
-
- R = E + p0 <-- best theta I can manage
- where E is eccentricity (distance from origin at start)
- p is pitch (change in R for every degree 0)
-
- x = (E+p0)cos0 y = (E+p0)sin0
-
- Where do we go from here? I'm sorry if this sounds like a real minor-league
- question, but sometimes the wisdom of the net is alot quicker than digging
- through the old calculus books. Besides, the chief engineer is working on
- it and I'd love to beat him to the answer. :)
-
- Email responses preferred, to keep the traffic out of this group.
-
- Thanks for any help you can give,
- Duane Morin
- Software Development Manager
- Walker Sonix, Inc.
- Worcester, MA 01604
-