Tracing the Trajectory of a Circle of radius R around the line plot of position
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I am working on some plots between interacting micro-swimmers in a 2D fluid which are modelled as circles. I have my code to output the positions of the swimmers as they swim and interact. However, because they have a radius R I want to trace the path of the whole circle as it moves to check that the spheres don't collide as my model doesn't account for this.
Below I have an example of a plot of two interacting swimmers that deflect each other due to their flow/turbulance as they progress through the fluid. I would like each line to be exactly of thickness 1 (i.e Radius = 0.5). Changing the line thickness directly on the plot doesn't work as it does not scale with the magnification/axes scale. What would be good is keeping the original line but with a slightly transparent or lighter colour trace of a circle of radius R moving along this line. ![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/1434393/image.jpeg)
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/1434393/image.jpeg)
Hope this makes sense,
Cheers
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Dyuman Joshi
on 15 Jul 2023
You can draw a parallel lines to the original curve, one above the curve and one below the curve, with a specified distance.
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Shushant
on 2 Aug 2023
Hi William,
I understand that while plotting a line you want it to be of certain thickness, which is not affected by the change in scale. To achieve this you can use "polyshape".
For example, Plotting a line from (-5,0) to (0,60) with thickness 1.
pgon = polyshape([-5 -5 0 0], [0.5 -0.5 59.5 60.5]);
plot(pgon)
Refer to the following documentation for more information -
I hope this helped in solving the issue you were facing.
Thank you,
Shushant
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Dyuman Joshi
on 2 Aug 2023
That would be rather difficult and/or messy for curves with bends, which is what OP is working with.
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