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[xiaoyou <>]

Dear Sir,
I want to calculate the minimum distance from an point to a 2D circular
curve or 2D Bezier curve. Do you have any ideas? I really hope you can give
me some advice. Thank you very much.

xiaoyou


Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory) wrote
> Le mercredi 23 janvier 2013 00:33:08 xiaoyou a écrit :
>> Hi guys,
>> Does anyone know how to calculate the minimum distance from an arbitrary
>> point to a curve?
>> Any feasible functions exist in CGAL?xiao
>> PS:This curve can be a general curve or polynomial curve.
>> Thanks very much!
> 
> Hi, we cannot answer to your question without knowing what you call a
> "general 
> curve".
> 
> What is more, even for polynomial curves, we would need more information:
> what 
> is the dimension of the ambient space of your curves? Are they curves in a
> 2D 
> plane, curves in the 3D space, or curves in higher dimensions?
> 
> -- 
> Laurent Rineau, PhD
> R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
> Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/
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