Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fit a plane to a set of xyz points

2010-07-27 Thread Friedrich Romstedt
2010/7/26 Mathew Yeates mat.yea...@gmail.com: Is there a simple function call for this? And finding the distance of a point to the plane? Hmm, when you are interested in the z distance alone, it should be a matrix equation: Z = X * m_x + Y * m_y + 1 * n Meaning you can invert it with

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fit a plane to a set of xyz points

2010-07-27 Thread Joe Kington
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Friedrich Romstedt friedrichromst...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/26 Mathew Yeates mat.yea...@gmail.com: Is there a simple function call for this? And finding the distance of a point to the plane? Hmm, when you are interested in the z distance alone, it should

[Matplotlib-users] Fit a plane to a set of xyz points

2010-07-26 Thread Mathew Yeates
Is there a simple function call for this? And finding the distance of a point to the plane? -Mathew -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm