A collection of extensions and functions around CGGeometry types, CGPoint, CGSize, CGRect and CGVector. It includes some other functions for FloatingPoint and Comparable types.
clamp is a function that takes three parameters, value, min and max. It will return a value that will be min if value <= min, max if value >= max and value in any other case.
lerp is the linear interpolation function. Given two values, start and end, and a progress (usually in the range [0, 1]), it will perform a linear interpolation between start and end and return that value.
You can read more about linear interpolation here but the basic gist of it is that it will return start when progress is 0, end when progress is 1, and for any value in [0, 1] it will return the percentage of the difference between end and start. For example, lerp(start: 5, end: 15, progress: 0.5) will return 10, which is right between 5 and 15, because progress is 0.5.
This method can take a progress value outside the [0, 1] range, this can be useful in some cases, like when making a bouncy animation, but you can prevent this by using clamp() on the progress before calling the function.
inverseLerp is the opposite of lerp. Given three values, start, end and a value (usually in the [start, end] range), it will return a progress value such that using it in lerp with the same start and end values, it will return value. For example, lerp(start: 5, end: 15, value: 10) will return 0.5, since 10 is right between 5 and 15.
remap takes to ranges and converts the value from one range to another. For example, if you have a few values in the [20, 40] range and you want them in the [50, 100] range, you would call value.remap(from: (20, 40), to: (50, 100)). 20 would become 50, 40 would become 100 and 30 would become 75.
The four CGGeometry types CGPoint, CGSize, CGRect and CGVector conform to the protocols in DoubleListRepresentable. This means that they can be initialized and converted to a list of doubles. In the case of CGRect, this list is exactly four elements long, in all other cases the list should have exactly two elements.
DoubleListRepresentable adds the magnitude variable and the normalize and lerp methods, which should be quite self explanatory. It also adds four basic arithmetic functions: +, -, * and /. In the case of the multiplication and division, this is done with a scalar (Double) that multiplies or divides each component of the element.
Besides the functions and variables provided by DoubleListRepresentable, each of the four CGGeometry types contains at least one convenience initializer, which should be very easy to understand, and CGPoint, CGSize and CGVector contain variables to transform the value from one type to any of the other two types.