Find intersection of two x-y tracks given time element
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I have two tracks defined by x-y coordinates in which I would like to establish the crossing points. This appears to be relatively easy using several of the submissions on File Exchange such as Intersection and InterX . This submission a list of the x and y values of the crossing points. However it doesn’t take into account time. Let me explain....
Suppose my two tracks are for a cat and a mouse. The tracks explain where both the cat and mouse have been as a function of time using x-y coordinates. Let’s now suppose that I know that the cat always trails the mouse - that is to say that the mouse is always ahead of the cat as a function of time, never the other way round. Is there a quick way (like the File Exchange link I show) to calculate only crossing points where the cat crosses the mouses trail, not the mouse crossing the cats trail.
One solution would be to return x-y-time triplets which I could then filter to ensure the cat is behind the mouse. But I’m not sure how I could make a fast running function of this nature
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