Finding a point on a curve closest to a surface

Hi,

I am wroking on a kind of raycasting scheme and I encountered a problem with extracting points. I have a set of lines, on each there is a couple of points, and a surface perpendicular to those curves. I'd like to pick one point on each curve that is the closest to the surface and I am struglling with that for far too long now... :)

Maybe you have some ideas ?

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Permalink Reply by Thomas J. Mrokon on November 23, 2012 at 8:51am

search for surface CP

Permalink Reply by Piotr Jedras on November 23, 2012 at 8:58am

OH :) I already had that component in mind, but I don't know how to solve the

simultaneous event of being closest to surface AND being a part of a curve. Now the 'surface CP' gives me the closest point on a surface for each of the points on a curve.

Permalink Reply by Piotr Jedras on November 23, 2012 at 10:01am

Ok, I managed to solve that with both the Surface CP comp and the Closest Point comp.

Thank you teejot! your response was inspiring :)

Permalink Reply by pyesd on May 17, 2018 at 4:31am