overlapping area between two circles
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hello i have 25 circles each with center coordinates and all of the same radius how to calculate the overlapping area between any two or more circles
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Image Analyst
on 12 Mar 2016
Perhaps this will help you learn how to program in a formula/equation: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/8026-best-way-s-to-master-matlab
Ahmet Cecen
on 12 Mar 2016
I feel like this is better solved in MAPLE or Mathematica if you are looking for an exact answer in continuous space.
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Star Strider
on 12 Mar 2016
I was filling in the area of the overlap of two circles in How we can generate a union area of overlapping 2 circles, 3 circles, multiple n circles, not calculating the area. However you could adapt that idea to calculate the area of the overlap between any two of them using trapz.
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Roger Stafford
on 14 Mar 2016
Let the distance between the centers of two circles be d and their two radii be r1 and r2. Then the area, A, of the overlap region of the two circles can be calculated as follows using Matlab's 'atan2' function:
t = sqrt((d+r1+r2)*(d+r1-r2)*(d-r1+r2)*(-d+r1+r2));
A = r1^2*atan2(t,d^2+r1^2-r2^2)+r2^2*atan2(t,d^2-r1^2+r2^2)-t/2;
Note that if 't' is imaginary, then either the circles don't intersect at all in which case the overlap area is zero, or one circle lies entirely within the other in which case the overlap area is just that of this inner circle.
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Ahmet Cecen
on 12 Mar 2016
If the formula is correct, here is a function that will calculate the area:
a = @(d,r,R) (1/d).*sqrt(4*(d.^2)*(R.^2) - ((d.^2)-(r.^2)+(R.^2)).^2)
Now all you do to get the area is:
d = distance between two centers
area = a(d,radius1,radius2)
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