I am looking to calculate the bounding box of a rectangle rotated around its center. I have read this question and while MarkusQ's answer works in general, it is not efficient enough for my needs. I am trying to get Troubadour's answer working, but it seems to only work when the origin of rotation is around a corner, not the center.
Is it possible to adapt his solution to work with rectangles that have their origin of rotation around their center?
I've developed a full recreation of the problem below:
let canvas = document.querySelector("canvas");
let ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
function drawRectangle(rX, rY, rW, rH) {
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.rect(rX, rY, rW, rH);
ctx.stroke();
}
function degreesToRadians(degrees) { return degrees * (Math.PI / 180); }
function rotateCanvas(radians, centerX, centerY) {
ctx.translate(centerX, centerY);
ctx.rotate(radians);
ctx.translate(-centerX, -centerY);
}
function drawRotatedRectangle(rX, rY, rW, rH, rAngle) {
let rXCenter = rX + rW / 2;
let rYCenter = rY + rH / 2;
rotateCanvas(rAngle, rXCenter, rYCenter);
drawRectangle(rX, rY, rW, rH);
rotateCanvas(-rAngle, rXCenter, rYCenter);
}
function computeAABBCenter(x, y, w, h, theta) {
const ux = Math.cos(theta) * 0.5; // half unit vector along w
const uy = Math.sin(theta) * 0.5;
const wx = w * ux;
const wy = w * uy; // vector along w
const hx = h * -uy;
const hy = h * ux; // vector along h
// all point from top left CW
const x1 = x - wx - hx;
const y1 = y - wy - hy;
const x2 = x + wx - hx;
const y2 = y + wy - hy;
const x3 = x + wx + hx;
const y3 = y + wy + hy;
const x4 = x - wx + hx;
const y4 = y - wy + hy;
return {
x1: Math.min(x1, x2, x3, x4),
y1: Math.min(y1, y2, y3, y4),
x2: Math.max(x1, x2, x3, x4),
y2: Math.max(y1, y2, y3, y4),
};
}
let rX = 100;
let rY = 100;
let rW = 100;
let rH = 50;
let rA = 0.707;
drawRotatedRectangle(rX, rY, rW, rH, rA);
let bb = computeAABBCenter(rX, rY, rW, rH, rA);
drawRectangle(bb.x1, bb.y1, bb.x2 - bb.x1, bb.y2 - bb.y1);
body { margin: 0; overflow: hidden; }
<canvas width="800" height="800"></canvas>
As you can see, the bounding box rectangle is not correct. Here's what it currently looks like, and what it should look like: