Recipe: Detecting Circles
In a direct manipulation interface like iOS, you’d imagine that most people could get by just pointing to items onscreen. And yet, circle detection remains one of the most requested gestures. Developers like having people circle items onscreen with their fingers. In the spirit of providing solutions that readers have requested, Recipe 1-10 offers a relatively simple circle detector, which is shown in Figure 1-5.
Figure 1-5 The dot and the outer ellipse show the key features of the detected circle.
In this implementation, detection uses a multistep test. A time test checks that the stroke is not lingering. A circle gesture ...
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