Tue, 01/01/2002 - 17:09
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my problem is as follows A given curve y =f(x) and a point p(x,y) i need to find out the shortest distance between the given point and the curve !
please help me out.
Vedanth
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Tue, 01/08/2002 - 18:21
Hi Vedanth,
One way to do it would be to describe your curve as a Geom_Curve (you have to define a bunch of pure virtual functions, mainly to compute derivatives of your curve), then you could build a TopoDS_Edge and
use the BRepExtrema_ExtPC algoritm to compute your solution.
Good Luck.
Francois.