TotallyUnrelatedMathQuestions

Thought I'd pay a little visit back to the RoboWiki in an unashamed attempt to recruit some help for a little project I have going. It's a little hard to explain the problem, but I think I'm up to the task. Say you have a rectangular piece of elastic with a dot on it, and you stretch the four corners of the rectangle out different directions. Given the coordinates of the 4 corners and the point, I need to figure the coordinates of the point when the rectangle is unstretched. Any ideas? --Simonton

Well... I might be able to help but I have a couple questions to clarify the problem. Are you assuming the sides of the elastic rectangle stay straight unlike a truly realistic elastic which becomes thinner when stretched? I'm guessing you assume stretching is linear as well? I think I have an understanding of how to do this if the answer is yes to both of those :) -- Rednaxela