shortest distance between two curves

Hi guys,

Is there a way to find the shortest distance between any two curves ?

Cheers,

Arthur

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Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on July 14, 2011 at 1:44pm

Call me a sadist !

(This example is especially made to annoy Luis and Jacek, I dont know how ClosestPoints behaves cause its in rhino5 only ?)

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Permalink Reply by Dedackelzucht on July 15, 2011 at 12:41am

Sadist! :-)

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on July 15, 2011 at 2:03am

Yes and no, ClosestPoints is new in last week's RhinoCommon. So it's already available in Rhino 5 and will be available in Rhino 4 for scripting in Grasshopper with the next version of Gh.

- Giulio
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giulio@mcneel.com
McNeel Europe

Permalink Reply by Dedackelzucht on July 15, 2011 at 2:04am

Good news! Thank you!

Best Regards

DeDackel

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 15, 2011 at 4:10am

No it won't. ClosestPoints is Rhino5 only, it will not appear in Grasshopper until we switch to Rhino5 or unless I make a special Rhino5 only version.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on August 3, 2011 at 6:19am

Guys,

Blown away by the quality of the answers!

Thanks so much, this is so helpful.

Arthur

Permalink Reply by Thijs van der Lely on November 24, 2011 at 9:38am

Hi,

Is there a way to do it for circles packet on a sfeer?

I tried the way Jacek Jaskolski but even with my i7 it keeps crashing.

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Permalink Reply by Arturo Steinberg on August 11, 2016 at 8:43am

Reviving an old topic, I was wondering if there could be an extension of this method to use 2 lines instead of curves, projecting the closest points to infinite.

I've been trying to get the math of it to no avail...

This is a geometric approach I did: