Map range

Map range is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Given two ranges:

• Range $a$ of all real numbers $x$ satisfying $a1\leq x\leq a2$.
• And range $b$ of all real numbers $y$ satisfying $b1\leq y\leq b2$.

Then a value s in range a is linearly mapped to a value t in range b where:

$t=b1+{(s-a1)(b2-b1) \over (a2-a1)}$

The task is to write a function/subroutine/... that takes two ranges and a real number and returns the mapping of the real number from the first to the second range. Use this function to map the values of the integers 0 to 10 from the range [0, 10] to the range [-1, 0].

Extra credit: Show additional idiomatic ways of performing the mapping, using tools available to the language.

C++

This example defines a template function to handle the mapping, using two std::pair objects to define the source and destination ranges. It returns the provided value mapped into the target range.

It's not written efficiently; certainly, there can be fewer explicit temporary variables. The use of the template offers a choice in types for precision and accuracy considerations, though one area for improvement might be to allow a different type for intermediate calculations.

<lang cpp>#include <iostream>

1. include <utility>

template<typename tVal> tVal map_value(std::pair<tVal,tVal> a, std::pair<tVal, tVal> b, tVal inVal) {

 tVal inValNorm = inVal - a.first;
 tVal aUpperNorm = a.second - a.first;
 tVal normPosition = inValNorm / aUpperNorm;

 tVal bUpperNorm = b.second - b.first;
 tVal bValNorm = normPosition * bUpperNorm;
 tVal outVal = b.first + bValNorm;

 return outVal;

}

int main() {

 std::pair<float,float> a(0,10), b(-1,0);

 for(float value = 0.0; 10.0 >= value; ++value)
   std::cout << "map_value(" << value << ") = " << map_value(a, b, value) << std::endl;

 return 0;

}</lang>

Output:

map_value(0) = -1
map_value(1) = -0.9
map_value(2) = -0.8
map_value(3) = -0.7
map_value(4) = -0.6
map_value(5) = -0.5
map_value(6) = -0.4
map_value(7) = -0.3
map_value(8) = -0.2
map_value(9) = -0.1
map_value(10) = 0

PureBasic

<lang PureBasic>Structure RR

 a.f
 b.f

EndStructure

Procedure.f MapRange(*a.RR, *b.RR, s)

 Protected.f a1, a2, b1, b2 
 a1=*a\a:  a2=*a\b
 b1=*b\a:  b2=*b\b
 ProcedureReturn b1 + ((s - a1) * (b2 - b1) / (a2 - a1))

EndProcedure

- Test the function

If OpenConsole()

 Define.RR Range1, Range2
 Range1\a=0: Range1\b=10
 Range2\a=-1:Range2\b=0
 ;
 For i=0 To 10
   PrintN(RSet(Str(i),2)+" maps to "+StrF(MapRange(@Range1, @Range2, i),1))
 Next

EndIf</lang>

 0 maps to -1.0
 1 maps to -0.9
 2 maps to -0.8
 3 maps to -0.7
 4 maps to -0.6
 5 maps to -0.5
 6 maps to -0.4
 7 maps to -0.3
 8 maps to -0.2
 9 maps to -0.1
10 maps to 0.0

Python

<lang python>>>> def maprange( a, b, s): (a1, a2), (b1, b2) = a, b return b1 + ((s - a1) * (b2 - b1) / (a2 - a1))

>>> for s in range(11): print("%2g maps to %g" % (s, maprange( (0, 10), (-1, 0), s)))

0 maps to -1
1 maps to -0.9
2 maps to -0.8
3 maps to -0.7
4 maps to -0.6
5 maps to -0.5
6 maps to -0.4
7 maps to -0.3
8 maps to -0.2
9 maps to -0.1

10 maps to 0</lang>

Tcl

<lang tcl>package require Tcl 8.5 proc rangemap {rangeA rangeB value} {

   lassign $rangeA a1 a2
   lassign $rangeB b1 b2
   expr {$b1 + ($value - $a1)*double($b2 - $b1)/($a2 - $a1)}

}</lang> Demonstration (using a curried alias to bind the ranges mapped from and to): <lang tcl>interp alias {} demomap {} rangemap {0 10} {-1 0} for {set i 0} {$i <= 10} {incr i} {

   puts [format "%2d -> %5.2f" $i [demomap $i]]

}</lang> Output:

 0 -> -1.00
 1 -> -0.90
 2 -> -0.80
 3 -> -0.70
 4 -> -0.60
 5 -> -0.50
 6 -> -0.40
 7 -> -0.30
 8 -> -0.20
 9 -> -0.10
10 ->  0.00