Re: distance to quadratic surface
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg106951] Re: [mg106922] distance to quadratic surface
- From: cire g <eric.phys at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:47:13 -0500 (EST)
- References: <201001280744.CAA23613@smc.vnet.net>
Hello,
I have the similar problem in finding an analytical solutions of a cone
intersection a line, two cones intersecting, and three cones intersecting.
best regards,
eric
rych wrote:
> I'm trying to find a distance from a point {xi,yi,zi} to a quadratic
> surface g(x,y,). (With the intent to use the least squares to actually
> determine the best quadratic surface later)
>
>
> dist2[x_, y_, z_] = (x - xi)^2 + (y - yi)^2 + (z - zi)^2;
> g[x_, y_] = c0 + c1 x + c2 y + c3 x y + c4 x^2 + c5 y^2;
>
> dx = D[dist2[x, y, g[x, y]], x]
> dy = D[dist2[x, y, g[x, y]], y]
>
> Solve[{dx == 0, dy == 0}, {x, y}]
>
>
> Solve never comes back. Neither would Resolve. It's a system of cubic
> equations in x and y, is it not solvable?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
- References:
- distance to quadratic surface
- From: rych <rychphd@gmail.com>
- distance to quadratic surface