Draw lines from centroid of contour at given angle till edge of contour

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it's a bit of a shame, that you can't access the LineIterator from python, as it saves you from finding the intersection point manually, you'd just walk on with your line, until you reach a border pixel (or the image bounds) :

Mat ocv = imread("k4eIlCQ.png");
Mat gray; cvtColor(ocv,gray,COLOR_BGR2GRAY);
threshold(gray,gray,100,255,0);

Moments M = moments(gray);
Point cen( int(M.m10/M.m00), int(M.m01/M.m00) );

for (int i=0; i<360; i+=20)
{
    double s = sin(i*CV_PI/180);
    double c = cos(i*CV_PI/180);
    Point p2(cen.x+s*150, cen.y+c*150); // any radius will do, we just want the direction

    LineIterator it(ocv, cen, p2, 8);
    Rect bounds(0, 0, ocv.cols, ocv.rows);
    while(bounds.contains(it.pos()))
    {
        Vec3b & pixel = ocv.at<Vec3b>(it.pos());
        // if you stare really hard, you'll see the cheat ;)
        if (pixel[0] > 50) // non dark(it's not really black in the image!)
           pixel[1] = pixel[2] = 0; // set g and b to 0, leaves blue line
        else
           break;
        it++;
    }
}
imshow("lines", ocv);

Altough the approach by @Balaji will probably work without any problems, I do think this can be done much easier. From an angle and a starting point one can use mathematics to derive the function that represents the line. Once you have done that the following steps are quite easy.

• Define for each border (edge of mat) the value of the function. For example if your top border equals the equation x = 0, then you can define the y value of your line equation and see if that still falls within the range of your top edge.
• For each line you want to draw there will be only 2 points possible on your matrix. This also allows you only to draw lines for 180 degrees and get all 360 degree segments. Then use those two matching points to draw your line.

Necessary equation: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15...

Hi @samkhan !

I think you are trying to find contour points that are at certain angle from centroid of that contour. Please follow the above steps:

1. Find minenclosing circle of that contour.
2. Find Point on the circle on a given angle. You can refer this Answer
3. Find all the Points on the Line segment using Line Iterator.
4. Loop through all the contour points & find the Distance between two points(Contour Point & Point on the Line).
5. Find the Point with minimum distance which is the Intersection Point P.
6. Draw a Line from Centroid C to Point P.

Hope you understand this simple explanation & I'll leave the code part for you!