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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2016 / Functional programming, design and analysis of algorithms (resit) / 4 / h / Solution by

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Translate the vertex centroid to the origin, rotate, and translate back:

rotatePoly :: Polygon -> Double -> Polygon
rotatePoly ps theta =
  (translate c . map turn . translate (-cx,-cy)) ps
  where
    c@(cx,cy) = centroid ps
    turn (x,y) = (cos theta*x + sin theta*y,
                 -sin theta*x + cos theta*y)

This follows the supplied rotation matrix, so positive $θ$ rotates clockwise in the usual Cartesian axes. The opposite signs give the conventional counterclockwise matrix. Since the vertex centroid of the centered vertices is zero and a linear map commutes with their average, the final centroid remains c.

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