Questions tagged [geometry]
This challenge is intended to be solved by using, manipulating, or creating shapes or other geometric structures.
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The primitive circle problem
Challenge
The primitive circle problem is the problem of determining how many coprime integer lattice points \$x,y\$ there are in a circle centered at the origin and with radius \$r \in \mathbb{Z}^+
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Ellipse Lattice Point Counter
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Determine how many integer lattice points there are in an ellipse
$$\frac{x^2}{a^2} + \frac{y^2}{b^2} \leq 1$$
centered at the origin with width \$2a\$ and height \$2b\$ where integers \$a, ...
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Where to stand to throw circles over sticks
Consider a horizontal line with vertical lines centered on the x-axis and placed at gaps of \$\sqrt{2}/2\$. For a positive integer \$n \geq 3\$, the first half of the lines have lengths \$0, \sqrt{2},...
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Counting Collinear Points
Given two points \$(x_1, y_1)\$ and \$(x_2, y_2)\$ with integer coordinates, calculate the number of integer points (excluding the given points) that lie on the straight line segment joining these two ...
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Find the optimum circle in an infinite grid
Consider an \$n \times n\$ grid of integers which is part of an infinite grid. The top left coordinate of the \$n \times n\$ grid of integers is \$(0, 0)\$.
The task is to find a circle which when ...
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Construct this point
Given a constructible point \$(x, y) \in \mathbb R^2\$, output the steps required to construct \$(x, y)\$
Constructing a point
Consider the following "construction" of a point \$(\alpha, \...
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Construct the Constructability sequence
Consider compass-and-straightedge construction, where you can construct new points from existing ones by examining intersections of straight lines and circles constructed with one of the following two ...
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Calculate the Distance to a Line Segment
The Challenge
Given two vertexes and a point calculate the distance to the line segment defined by those points.
This can be calculated with the following psudocode
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Cutting a Circular Pizza Vertically
Most people would cut circular pizzas into circular sectors to divide them up evenly, but it's also possible to divide them evenly by cutting them vertically like so, where each piece has the same ...
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Generate the vertices of a geodesic sphere
As in this challenge, the task is to generate the vertices of a polyhedron. The polyhedron here is the one obtained by dividing a regular icosahedron's triangular faces into smaller triangles so that ...
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Vertices of a regular dodecahedron
A regular dodecahedron is one of the five Platonic solids. It has 12 pentagonal faces, 20 vertices, and 30 edges.
Your task is to output the vertex coordinates of a regular dodecahedron. The size, ...
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Euclidean distance on projective plane
Motivated by this challenge
Background
Let we have a square sheet of flexible material.
Roughly speaking, we may close it on itself four ways:
Here the color marks the edges that connect and the ...
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Given 4 fence lengths, what's the largest rectangular yard you can make?
Here's a very simple little problem that I don't believe has been asked before.
Challenge
Write a program or a function that takes in four positive integers that represents the lengths of movable but ...
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Calculate Euclidean distance on a torus
Euclidean distance between two lattice points \$(x_1, y_1)\$ and \$(x_2, y_2)\$ on a plane is: \$\sqrt{(x_1 - x_2)^2 + (y_1 - y_2)^2}\$.
Imagine now a lattice ...
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Enumeration of free polyominoes
A polyomino with \$n\$ cells is a shape consisting of \$n\$ equal squares connected edge to edge.
No free polyomino is the rotation, translation or reflection (or a combination of these ...
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Draw the GKMS aperiodic tile
Chaim Goodman-Strauss, Craig Kaplan, Joseph Myers and David Smith found the following simple (both objectively and subjectively) polygon that tiles the plane, but only aperiodically:
Indeed they ...
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Detect round trips on a hyperbolic grid
You're driving a car in an infinite city whose blocks are pentagons arranged in the order-4 pentagonal tiling. At each step, you proceed to the next intersection and choose whether to continue left, ...
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Voronoi-Lloyd ASCII art [closed]
Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane (or part of plane) into regions close to each of a given set of objects ("seeds").
Here we’ll be dealing with discrete arrays or even rather with ...
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Canonical form of a cubic Bézier curve
On Pomax's Primer on Bézier Curves this "fairly funky image" appears:
This is related to the fact that every cubic Bézier curve can be put in a "canonical form" by an affine ...
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4D rotation matrix to quaternions
It is well-known that a 3D rotation can always be represented by a quaternion. It is less well-known that a 4D rotation can always be represented by two quaternions, sending a point \$p=(a,b,c,d)^T\$ ...
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3D rotation matrix to quaternion
There are multiple ways to represent a 3D rotation. The most intuitive way is the rotation matrix –
$$A=\begin{bmatrix}A_{11}&A_{12}&A_{13}\\A_{21}&A_{22}&A_{23}\\A_{31}&A_{32}&...
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How spherical is my ellipsoid?
Define the (unnormalised) Willmore energy of a surface as the integral of squared mean curvature over it:
$$W=\int_SH^2\,dA$$
For surfaces topologically equivalent to a sphere \$W\ge4\pi\$, and \$W=4\...
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Create a triangle whose colors are determined by the bitsums of coordinates
Write a program that, for any \$n\$, generates a triangle made of hexagons as shown, \$2^n\$ to a side. The colors are to be determined as follows.
We may give the triangle barycentric coordinates so ...
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Roll a painted cube
There is a 1x1x1 cube placed on a infinite grid of 1x1 squares. The cube is painted on every side, so it leaves a mark on the grid when it moves.
The sides of the cube are colored 6 distinct colors, ...
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Intersection area of two rotated rectangles
Given two rectangles, which are possibly not in the orthogonal direction, find the area of their intersection.
Input
You may take the rectangles as input in one of the following ways:
The ...
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ASCII-art polygons to GeoJSON coordinates
We're going to turn ascii art versions of polygons into their equivalent GeoJSON.
The ASCII shape language
The input ASCII language only has 3 possible characters:
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Rolling a 1x1x2 block
Rolling a 1x1x2 block
This challenge is inspired by the game Bloxorz. Like that game, there is a 1x1x2 block, which may be moved on a square grid in any of the four cardinal directions. It moves by ...
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Transform a lattice polygon to minimum diameter by shearing
Given is a grid polygon by the list of its integer vertex coordinates arranged along the perimeter, in the form
\$(x_1,y_1), (x_2,y_2), \cdots , (x_n,y_n)\$ with \$n \ge 3\$.
The polygon is completed ...
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The smallest area of a convex grid polygon
I got an email from Hugo Pfoertner, an Editor-in-Chief at the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, with a terrific idea for a fastest-code challenge, which will also help verify or expand the ...
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Detect round trips on a dodecahedron
An ant starts on an edge of a dodecahedron, facing parallel to it. At each step, it walks forward to the next vertex and turns either left or right to continue onto one of the other two edges that ...
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Triangle area from side lengths
Output the area \$A\$ of a triangle given its side lengths \$a, b, c\$ as inputs. This can be computed using Heron's formula:
$$ A=\sqrt{s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)}\textrm{, where } s=\frac{a+b+c}{2}.$$
This ...
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Find the Circle-Tangent Polynomials
Introduction
A circle-tangent polynomial is a polynomial of degree \$N\ge3\$ or above that is tangent to the unit circle from inside at all of its N-1 intersection points. The two tails that exits the ...
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Matrix Meets ASCII Art
A binary matrix represents a shape in the plane. 1 means a unit square at that position. 0 means nothing. The background is 0.
For example, the array ...
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Euler characteristic of a binary matrix
A binary matrix represents a shape in the plane. 1 means a unit square at that position. 0 means nothing. The background is <...
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Calculate the overlapping line
(l, r) defines a line whose left end is at l and the right end is at r, on a 1-dimensional ...
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Random Point from a 2D Donut Distribution
A donut distribution (for lack of a better term) is a random distribution of points in a 2-dimensional plane, forming a donut-like shape. The distribution is defined by two parameters: the radius <...
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Coordinates for a Heronian tetrahedron
Did you know that Heronian Tetrahedra Are Lattice Tetrahedra? A Heronian tetrahedron is a tetrahedron where
the length of each edge is an integer,
the area of each face is an integer, and
the volume ...
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Score a curling end
Curling is a sport where two teams aim to place stones as close to the centre of a target as possible. The winner of a curling end is the team whose stone is closest to the centre – they score as many ...
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Is this hexagon symmetric?
TLDR: This is the hexagonal version of Is this square symmetrical?
Given a hexagonal grid, decide if it is symmetric.
The shape of the grid is a regular hexagon. Each cell in the grid has two possible ...
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AoCG2021 Day 22: Hyperbolic rescue
Part of Advent of Code Golf 2021 event. See the linked meta post for details.
The story continues from AoC2017 Day 11.
Crossing the bridge, you've barely reached the other side of the stream when you ...
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All distances different on a chessboard
Inspired by this Puzzling SE question: All distances different on a chess board.
Introduction
Lets define a sequence \$a(n), n\geqslant 1\$ as how many pawns can you put on a \$n \times n\$ chessboard ...
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The Area of Rectangles
Getting the area covered by a rectangle is really easy; just multiply its height by its width. However in this challenge we will be getting the area covered by multiple rectangles. This is equally ...
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Find the sliced sheet of paper
Context :
Suppose you have a sheet of paper measuring 8 x 10. You want to cut it exactly in half while maintaining its rectangular shape. You can do this in two ...
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Draw me a shape
The game shapez.io has a lot of shapes. In my previous challenge, the object was to generate a random code for a shape. Now, your challenge is to render a shape.
Specs
Shapes
Each shape has a unique ...
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Distances between keys on a QWERTY keyboard
Inspired by this video by Matt Parker
The distances between the letter keys of a QWERTY keyboard are somewhat standardised. The keys are square and both the horizontal and vertical spacing are 19.05mm ...
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Build the widest unsupported bridge with nothing but frictionless blocks
In this challenge you must write a computer program that creates a stack of a thousand identical \$1 \times 1\$ frictionless homogeneous blocks such that each block is supported and the stack is ...
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Minkowski sum of two convex polygons
Background
Minkowski addition is a binary operation on two sets of points (usually geometric objects) in the Euclidean space. The Minkowski sum of two sets \$A\$ and \$B\$ is formally defined as ...
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Are vertices in a clockwise order?
Your program must accept as input six numbers, which describe a triangle - for example, the inputs 80, 23, 45, 1, 76, -2 describe a triangle with vertices (80, 23), (45, 1), and (76, -2). The input ...
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Convince me Gabriel's Horn is possible
From Wikipedia, Gabriel's Horn is a particular geometric figure that has infinite surface area but finite volume. I discovered this definition in this Vsauce's video (starting at 0:22) where I took ...
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Determine Circles
Giving n(any amount) of points (x,y). What's the minimum amount of circles required to cross every point given?
Task
Your ...