I'm in a strange situation where I have a value of 0.5 and I want to convert the values from 0.5 to 1 to be a percentage and from 0.5 to 0 to be a negative percentage.
As it says in the title 0.4 should be -20%, 0.3 should be -40% and 0.1 should be -80%.
I'm sure this is a simple problem, but my mind is just refusing to figure it out :)
Can anyone help? :)
What we want to do is to scale the range (0; 1) to (-100; 100):
percentage = (value - 0.5) * 200;
The subtraction transforms the value so that it's in the range (-0.5; 0.5), and the multiplication scales it to the range of (-100; 100).
Normalize it, and you're done:
// Assuming x is in the range (0,1)
x *= 2.0; // x is in the range (0,2)
x -= 1.0; // (-1,1)
x *= 100; // (-100,100)
percent = ((value - 0.5) / 0.5) * 100
This will generate from -100 to 100. You want to subtract your zero value (0.5) from the given value, and divide by the range that should give 100% (also 0.5 in your example). Then multiply by 100 to convert to percentage.