Java: Calculating the angle between two points in degrees

Question

I need to calculate the angle in degrees between two points for my own Point class, Point a shall be the center point.

Method:

public float getAngle(         


        

Answer 1

Why is everyone complicating this?

The only problem is Math.atan2( x , y)

The corret answer is Math.atan2( y, x)

All they did was mix the variable order for Atan2 causing it to reverse the degree of rotation.

All you had to do was look up the syntax https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geeksforgeeks.org/java-lang-math-atan2-java/amp/

Answer 2

Based on Saad Ahmed's answer, here is a method that can be used for any two points.

public static double calculateAngle(double x1, double y1, double x2, double y2)
{
    double angle = Math.toDegrees(Math.atan2(x2 - x1, y2 - y1));
    // Keep angle between 0 and 360
    angle = angle + Math.ceil( -angle / 360 ) * 360;

    return angle;
}

Answer 3

What about something like :

angle = angle % 360;

Answer 4

you could add the following:

public float getAngle(Point target) {
    float angle = (float) Math.toDegrees(Math.atan2(target.y - y, target.x - x));

    if(angle < 0){
        angle += 360;
    }

    return angle;
}

by the way, why do you want to not use a double here?

Answer 5

The javadoc for Math.atan(double) is pretty clear that the returning value can range from -pi/2 to pi/2. So you need to compensate for that return value.

Answer 6

angle = Math.toDegrees(Math.atan2(target.x - x, target.y - y));

now for orientation of circular values to keep angle between 0 and 359 can be:

angle = angle + Math.ceil( -angle / 360 ) * 360