Hi João, I patched something for you, maybe it's useful.
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http://mathsfirst.massey.ac.nz/Algebra/PythagorasTheorem/pythapp.htm Am 11.12.2013 um 02:30 schrieb João Pais <[email protected]>: > Am 06.12.2013, 00:51 Uhr, schrieb Claude Heiland-Allen <[email protected]>: > >> On 05/12/13 23:40, João Pais wrote: >>> Hello list, >>> >>> I had a doubt, will try to explain. >>> >>> I wanted to define a line in a 3d space through 2 points, and be able to >>> find out the distance from another point to that line. Since I'm very >>> bad at math, I wanted to know if anyone has done something similar, or >>> knows how to get to it. >> >> http://paulbourke.net/geometry/pointlineplane/ >> >> first example on the page, you just need to clamp u to [0..1] if you >> want to make it work for a line segment instead of an infinite line. > > it looks interesting, and I also checked for more content with a similar > title. the thing is, my math/geometry skills are too bad, and I don't > understand where they get the formulas for the points and lines. I'll keep > watching the links, but I might not get it in time for the purpose I was > looking for. > > thanks anyway, > > João > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
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