Line scaling - how to get the new coordinates?

I am working on a application which involves line scaling. I am working in Java/GWT so if there is already something inbuilt it would be great. I know this is very basic maths but I can't get my head around it (not its not homework before you ask).

I know it can be done with Trig, but this is a piece of code that will be run 1000s of times so it needs to be basic operations if possible (- + / *)

Essentially the orange line scales up and produces t开发者_开发百科he blue line.

I have:

• Coordinates (x1, y1) & (x2, y2)
• Length of orange line (by Pythagoras)
• Length of blue line

I need:

• Coordinates (u1, v1) & (u2, v2)

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You want to look into the equation of a straight line. With the magnitude and start point you can easily calculate the end point for a given length.

Y = mx + b

Here is a quick tutorial:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/equation_of_line.html

You could also google for collinear points which is actually what you are looking for.

Alternativly you could use vector maths:

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~jenolive/vect3.html