Does the formula give the "hypotenuse" of a shape that looks like a doorstop or
is it a different shape?
Brendan

Ron Parker wrote:


> >Hi you all.
> >
> >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>)
> >
> >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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