Brad, As Artur stated, use the square root of the sum of the squares to get distance. If I remember right when I was testing I found the point.distance routines to be MUCH slower than calculating it myself.
- John Wright Starfire Research Brad Christiansen wrote: > > Hi, > > What is the best way to get the distance between two points? > > ie I want the straight line distance between (0.3, 3, -5) and (6, -3.54, > 75) > > Cheers, > > Brad > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This Email may contain confidential and/or privileged information and is > intended solely for the addressee(s) named. If you have received this > information in error, or are advised that you have been posted this Email by > accident, please notify the sender by return Email, do not redistribute it, > delete the Email and keep no copies. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".