Hello! How can i make a condition run many times?

Hello! I have a problem. I have an if with a condition that must be fulfilled. But in case it is not, in the else section, i have it run the same code it had before the if. Iunderstand that i may add another else or an if, but it does not seem ok. I actually want something that can make it run until it fulfills the condition. Can you help me?

[Luna]

Can you be more specific about your condition and what kind of coding you have done so far?

[Stany Stone]

Sure! Here is my code:

My condition if for the [in, on] to be equal to 0, so that i can, for the moment, have 3 points out of 4 on the loop. If [in,on] is not equal to 0, i want to have the code run again( not the whole code, just from %get a known index) and stop when all it find itself fulfilled. Later i will add another condition so that the forth one can also be on the loop. Can you, please, help me?

format long g;
format compact;
fontSize = 15;
x = [5.5, 6, 4.5, 3.5, 5, 5, 3, 2, 2.5, 3, 2, 2.5, 4, 5, 4.5]  
y = [3, 2, 2.5, 1.5, 1.5, 1, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4.5, 5, 4, 3.5]
% Append first point to last to close the curve
x = [x, x(1)];
y = [y, y(1)];
plot(x, y, 'r*');
grid on;
knots = [x; y];
areaOfPolygon = polyarea(x,y);
numberOfPoints = length(x);
% Interpolate with a spline curve and finer spacing.
originalSpacing = 1 : numberOfPoints;
% Make 9 points in between our original points that the user clicked on.
finerSpacing = 1 : 0.1 : numberOfPoints;
% Do the spline interpolation.
splineXY = spline(originalSpacing, knots, finerSpacing);
% Plot the interpolated curve.
hold off;
plot(knots(1, :), knots(2, :), 'ro', 'LineWidth', 2, 'MarkerSize', 16);
hold on;
plot(splineXY(1, :), splineXY(2, :), 'b+-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'MarkerSize', 8);
title('Blue Spline Between Red Knots', 'FontSize', fontSize);
legend('Knots', 'Spline');
xlabel('X', 'FontSize', fontSize);
ylabel('Y', 'FontSize', fontSize);
grid on;
hold on;
% Get a known index.  "known" because it's one of the training points.
knownIndex = randperm(length(x), 1)
% Get a unknown index.  "unknown" because it's one of the interpolated points.
unknownIndex = randperm(length(finerSpacing), 1)
% Get the x,y coordinates for these indexes.
xKnown = knots(1, knownIndex)
yKnown = knots(2, knownIndex)
xUnknown = splineXY(1, unknownIndex)
yUnknown = splineXY(2, unknownIndex)
A=[xKnown, yKnown]
B=[xUnknown, yUnknown]
AB=sqrt((xKnown-splineXY(1, unknownIndex))^2+(yKnown-splineXY(2, unknownIndex))^2)

% Now draw a line between them in dark green.
darkGreen = [0, 0.5, 0];
plot([xKnown, xUnknown], [yKnown, yUnknown], 'o-', ...
	'Color', darkGreen, 'MarkerSize', 24, 'LineWidth', 3);

legend('Knots', 'Spline', 'Line between random knot and random point')unkownIndex1= randperm(length(finerSpacing), 1)
hold on
% slope of oldL
slope = (yKnown - yUnknown)./(xKnown - xUnknown);
% slope and tilt angle of newL 
perSlope = -1/slope;
perTheta = atan(perSlope);
% set the lenght of line segment you want to add to the figure
lineLength = 2*AB; 
halfLineLength = lineLength/2;
% calculate the end points of a newL based on the Known points of oldL
xPerKnown = [xKnown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta), ...
                     xKnown - halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)];
yPerKnown = [yKnown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta), ...
                     yKnown - halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)];
% calculate the ends points of another newL based on the Unknown points of oldL
xPerUnknown = [xUnknown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta), ...
                        xUnknown - halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)];
yPerUnknown = [yUnknown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta), ...
                        yUnknown - halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)];
xPerKnown(1) = [xKnown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)]
xPerKnown(2)=[xKnown - halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)];
yPerKnown(1)= [yKnown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)]
yPerKnown(2)=[yKnown - halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)];
% calculate the ends points of another newL based on the Unknown points of oldL
xPerUnknown(1) = [xUnknown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)]
xPerUnkown(2)=[xUnknown - halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)];
yPerUnknown(1) = [yUnknown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)]
yPerUnknown(2)=[yUnknown - halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)];
                        % draw these two newL
plot([xPerKnown(1), xKnown], [yPerKnown(1), yKnown], 'o-', ...
	'Color', darkGreen, 'MarkerSize', 24, 'LineWidth', 3);
plot([xPerUnknown(1), xUnknown], [yPerUnknown(1), yUnknown], 'o-', ...
	'Color', darkGreen, 'MarkerSize', 24, 'LineWidth', 3);
% set the unit length of two axis to be equal, to get a clear visualization of 90 degree
axis equal
plot([xPerKnown(1),xUnknown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)],[yPerKnown(1),yUnknown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)],'o-','Color', darkGreen, 'MarkerSize', 24, 'LineWidth', 3)


C=[xPerKnown(1),yPerKnown(1)]
D=[xPerUnknown(1),yPerUnknown(1)]
E=[xPerUnkown(2),yPerUnknown(2)]
F=[xPerKnown(2),yPerKnown(2)]

in = inpolygon(x,y,xPerKnown(1),yPerKnown(1))
[in,on] = inpolygon(x,y,xPerKnown(1),yPerKnown(1))

Answer 1

[Luna]

Basically, it can be done as follows with a while block:

some_condition_to_be_fullfilled = 0;

while some_condition_to_be_fullfilled == 0    
   if something_happened
       % do some mathematical stuff
       some_condition_to_be_fullfilled = 1;
       % or you can use break
       break
   else
        % do some mathematical stuff
       some_condition_to_be_fullfilled = 0;
   end   
end

[Stany Stone]

Thank you! I just tried using it now under this form:

while in1 = inpolygon(x,y,xPerKnown(1),yPerKnown(1))
[in1,on] = inpolygon(x,y,xPerKnown(1),yPerKnown(1))

in2=inpolygon(x,y,xPerUnknown(1),yPerUnknown(1))
[in2,on]=inpolygon(x,y,xPerUnknown(1),yPerUnknown(1))
 if [in,on] =0
 % Get a known index.  "known" because it's one of the training points.
knownIndex = randperm(length(x), 1)
% Get a unknown index.  "unknown" because it's one of the interpolated points.
unknownIndex = randperm(length(finerSpacing), 1)
% Get the x,y coordinates for these indexes.
xKnown = knots(1, knownIndex)
yKnown = knots(2, knownIndex)
xUnknown = splineXY(1, unknownIndex)
yUnknown = splineXY(2, unknownIndex)
A=[xKnown, yKnown]
B=[xUnknown, yUnknown]
AB=sqrt((xKnown-splineXY(1, unknownIndex))^2+(yKnown-splineXY(2, unknownIndex))^2)

% Now draw a line between them in dark green.
darkGreen = [0, 0.5, 0];
plot([xKnown, xUnknown], [yKnown, yUnknown], 'o-', ...
	'Color', darkGreen, 'MarkerSize', 24, 'LineWidth', 3);

legend('Knots', 'Spline', 'Line between random knot and random point')unkownIndex1= randperm(length(finerSpacing), 1)
hold on
% slope of oldL
slope = (yKnown - yUnknown)./(xKnown - xUnknown);
% slope and tilt angle of newL 
perSlope = -1/slope;
perTheta = atan(perSlope);
% set the lenght of line segment you want to add to the figure
lineLength = 2*AB; 
halfLineLength = lineLength/2;
% calculate the end points of a newL based on the Known points of oldL
xPerKnown = [xKnown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta), ...
                     xKnown - halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)];
yPerKnown = [yKnown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta), ...
                     yKnown - halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)];
% calculate the ends points of another newL based on the Unknown points of oldL
xPerUnknown = [xUnknown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta), ...
                        xUnknown - halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)];
yPerUnknown = [yUnknown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta), ...
                        yUnknown - halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)];
xPerKnown(1) = [xKnown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)]
xPerKnown(2)=[xKnown - halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)];
yPerKnown(1)= [yKnown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)]
yPerKnown(2)=[yKnown - halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)];
% calculate the ends points of another newL based on the Unknown points of oldL
xPerUnknown(1) = [xUnknown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)]
xPerUnkown(2)=[xUnknown - halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)];
yPerUnknown(1) = [yUnknown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)]
yPerUnknown(2)=[yUnknown - halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)];
                        % draw these two newL
plot([xPerKnown(1), xKnown], [yPerKnown(1), yKnown], 'o-', ...
	'Color', darkGreen, 'MarkerSize', 24, 'LineWidth', 3);
plot([xPerUnknown(1), xUnknown], [yPerUnknown(1), yUnknown], 'o-', ...
	'Color', darkGreen, 'MarkerSize', 24, 'LineWidth', 3);
% set the unit length of two axis to be equal, to get a clear visualization of 90 degree
axis equal
plot([xPerKnown(1),xUnknown + halfLineLength*cos(perTheta)],[yPerKnown(1),yUnknown + halfLineLength*sin(perTheta)],'o-','Color', darkGreen, 'MarkerSize', 24, 'LineWidth', 3)

else f=msgbox('3 down, one to go')
end
end

It didn't work. What can i do?

[Luna]

You have problem here:

if [in,on] =0

You can't define an if equality condition like above. You should be doing

if something == 0

Also, you are comparing a 2x1 array with zero, do you want both will be equal to zero? Then you should do this:

if (in == 0) && (on == 0)

[Guillaume]

Actually,

if [in, on] == 0

is equivalent to (assuming both in and on are scalar):

if in == 0 && on == 0

but it's likely the OP wouldn't be able to explain why, so Luna's syntax is strongly recommended. Another option would be:

if all([in, on] == 0)