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get chart value in point

For example I have chart with 2 points - 0,0 and 10,10 and chart type is FastLine. I want to know what Y value will be in chart in choosen X value.

For example when X is 5 I want to know that Y is 5.

My charts more complicated and have tons of points, I need to get Y value through X.

How can I do this?

Solution

  • The problem boils down to two tasks:

    • Finding the neighbouring points for an x-value
    • Interpolating their y-values for the given x-value.

    If the x-values are indeed steadily increasing this should solve both:

    double interpolatedY(Series s, double xval)
{
    DataPoint pPrev = s.Points.Last(x => x.XValue <= xval);
    DataPoint pNext = s.Points.First(x => x.XValue >= xval);

    if (pPrev == pNext) return pPrev.YValues[0];

    return pPrev.YValues[0] + (pNext.YValues[0] - pPrev.YValues[0])
        * (xval  - pPrev.XValue)/ (pNext.XValue - pPrev.XValue); 
}

    It uses Linq to find the previous and next datapoint and then uses simple math to find the interpolated value.

    Note that most checks are omitted!

    Here I have added an identical point series and a third one to add the interpolated values:

    enter image description here

    To convert between chart pixels and values there are Axis functions ValueToPixelPosition and PixelPositionToValue, btw.