I want to make a 'named' bezier curve. I want it to be one-word named so I don't have to worry about word-wrap.
I make bezier curve via P5 bezier(sx,sy,c1x,c1y,c2x,c2y,ex,ey)
function and I want a string to be shown in the middle of bezier curve. But I don't know how to find 'the middle' of curve.
For now my result looks like this (I don't know where to start picking up this problem, so I went with the easier way of just printing text on a start of curve):
But I want it to look like this:
This means that I need P1 and P2 coordinates:
Sorry for paint, but I don't have my code yet. As soon as I will have my hands on it I will add it here.
Here is code that draws a curve:
let
b = dest.inTriangle.middle, // destination triangle
g = this.outTriangle.p3, // tip of out triangle
c = {x:b.x-g.x,y:b.y-g.y}, // distance between objects
r1 = {}, // bezier point 1
r2 = {}; // bezier point 2
if(c.x > 0){
// b is on left
r1 = {
x: g.x + c.x/2,
y: g.y
};
r2 = {
x: b.x - c.x/2,
y: b.y
};
}
else {
// b is on right
r1 = {
x: g.x - c.x/2,
y: g.y + c.y
};
r2 = {
x: b.x + c.x/2,
y: b.y - c.y
};
}
noFill();
stroke(0);
bezier(
g.x, g.y,
r1.x, r1.y,
r2.x, r2.y,
b.x, b.y
);
noStroke();
fill(0);
text(this.name, g.x, (g.y-this.h/2))
You can use the bezierPoint()
function that comes with P5.js.
From the reference:
noFill();
var x1 = 85,
x2 = 10,
x3 = 90,
x4 = 15;
var y1 = 20,
y2 = 10,
y3 = 90,
y4 = 80;
bezier(x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, x4, y4);
fill(255);
var steps = 10;
for (var i = 0; i <= steps; i++) {
var t = i / steps;
var x = bezierPoint(x1, x2, x3, x4, t);
var y = bezierPoint(y1, y2, y3, y4, t);
ellipse(x, y, 5, 5);
}
You'd probably want to use a value of 0.5
for t
to get the midpoint.