A method of plane3d.

the signed distance of points to the plane, or the distance of two parallel planes, NaN where the planes meet

Syntax

d = plane.dist(v)

The signed distance of points, <N, v> - d.

d = plane.dist(plane2)

The distance of parallel planes.

Description

Two planes count as parallel when their normals agree up to tol; MATLAB requires them to agree exactly and returns the first plane’s d for planes that meet, the port NaN.

Input

plane plane3d
v vector3d of points, or a second plane3d

Keywords

keyword default description
tol 1e-08 how far the cosine of the normals may stay from 1 for parallel planes

Output

d the distances, positive on the side the normal points to

See also

dist, plane3d.project, plane3d.intersect

MATLAB’s plane3d.dist

source

Citing this page. This page is part of the documentation of MTEX, a free and open source MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling crystallographic textures. It was written by The MTEX Developers and is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/plane3d.dist_py.html. If you use MTEX, or reuse text or figures from this page, in your research, please cite

F. Bachmann, R. Hielscher, H. Schaeben: Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox, Solid State Phenomena 160 (2010), 63-68. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63

BibTeX 
@article{bachmann2010mtex,
  author  = {F. Bachmann and R. Hielscher and H. Schaeben},
  title   = {Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox},
  journal = {Solid State Phenomena},
  volume  = {160},
  pages   = {63-68},
  year    = {2010},
  doi     = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63}
}

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