Re: Distance from point to set
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- Subject: [mg55324] Re: [mg55273] Distance from point to set
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:45:32 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Piotr,
pointset = Table[{Random[Real, {-1, 1}], Random[Real, {-1, 1}]}, {15}]
{{0.5305433510989825, -0.9835285661296697},
{0.5149981888311421, 0.07030452237485907},
{-0.5548609965862412, -0.6706534564593198},
{0.4558425442584053, -0.12739148149428103},
{-0.9655103281065733, -0.05179566007389713},
{0.4904660178309532, 0.8356363263603159},
{0.16628343930149758, -0.042530943920831454},
{0.3659938304114865, 0.8630592267325137},
{0.5645610817860498, 0.628260167352799},
{0.8354119739988664, 0.47802415636698714},
{0.3895290445491575, -0.6189409509144874},
{0.6809555054832066, -0.4166538650333329},
{0.858985693450175, -0.6354123847848178},
{-0.8340426833479355, 0.513041612591808},
{0.41384669003641616, -0.9647589283254978}}
distance[set_][point_] :=
Min[(Sqrt[Plus @@ ((point - #1)^2)] & ) /@ set]
distance[pointset][{2, 2}]
1.90642
For a 3D case...
pointset3d =
Table[{Random[Real, {-1, 1}], Random[Real, {-1, 1}],
Random[Real, {-1, 1}]}, {5}]
{{-0.3514875029445578, -0.4986924916835682,
-0.981757049847647}, {0.46371338462627243,
0.25898345250628485, -0.8797515407690808},
{-0.6627125553308537, -0.11963275034039467,
0.3999977590561097}, {0.7556608440157371,
-0.8286698719829182, 0.3673256370677973},
{0.9861510690196937, 0.7204197723412349,
0.46121535562342286}}
distance[pointset3d][{2, 2, 1}]
1.71916
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
From: Piotr Kowalski [mailto:pkowalsk at ibspan.waw.pl]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Hello,
I would like to compute distance d(x,A) from a point 'x' to a set 'A',
(all in R^n, where n=2 or n=3) that is:
d(x,A) = min ||x - a|| (forall a in A)
where: n=2 or n=3,
x is point in R^n, A is subset of R^n
|| || is norm (euclidean, max, etc).
Can I find Mathematica function or package for such problem ?
Thank you in advance,
P. Kowalski