DistancePlaneToLine Struct Reference
[XEngineMath Library]

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Detailed Description

Returns the distance of the given line to the given plane.

	Given a plane n * X = d and a line X = P + t * D, the plane and line
	can either be parallel to each other or intersect each other.
	If the plane and the line are not parallel the distance is 0 because they 
	intersect. If the plane and line are parallel the distance is always
	the same and we can compute the minimum distance by projecting the
	base point P of the line onto the plane and computing the distance
	between P and the projected point.
	

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The documentation for this struct was generated from the following files:

• XDistanceAlgorithms.h
• XDistanceAlgorithms.cpp

 

Created with doxygen on: Thu Jan 6 14:12:15 2005 Copyright © by Martin Ecker