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>Hi you all.
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>To make a smooth animation, I'd like to measure the distance between two
>points ( ie : distance between <2,3,4> and <7,-8,3>)
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>Does anyone know the formulae to calculate it?
The simple way, in POV script, is vlength(A-B) where A and B are the vectors
you want the distance between. The formula actually used is
sqrt( (A.x-B.x)*(A.x-B.x)+(A.y-B.y)*(A.y-B.y)+(A.z-B.z)*(A.z-B.z))
which is from the Pythagorean Theorem in three dimensions.
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Ron Parker http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
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