How can I determine if a point is a given distance from a secondpoint?

[Tom P.]

I am writing a drawing program but I want to keep the scale down
(there could end up being several hundred objects on the screen).

I want to limit the points collected to a certain distance from other
points already collected, in other words, if you're drawing a line it
will only record points on the line every 6 pixels. How do I determine
how far away one point is from another? if they are restricted to
straight lines that's fine but as soon as they draw at an angle I'm
faced with determining how far away one point is from another in co-
ordinate space.

Any help would be appreciated.

Tom P.

[thomasnguyencom]

Re: How can I determine if a point is a given distance from a secondpoint?

On Mar 31, 1:24 pm, "Tom P." <padilla.he...@ gmail.comwrote:

I am writing a drawing program but I want to keep the scale down
(there could end up being several hundred objects on the screen).
>
I want to limit the points collected to a certain distance from other
points already collected, in other words, if you're drawing a line it
will only record points on the line every 6 pixels. How do I determine
how far away one point is from another? if they are restricted to
straight lines that's fine but as soon as they draw at an angle I'm
faced with determining how far away one point is from another in co-
ordinate space.
>
Any help would be appreciated.
>
Tom P.

Point x = new Point(1, 2);
Point y = new Point(3, 4);
double distance = Point.Distance( x, y);

I hope that helps.

goodluck,
-tom

[Tom P.]

Re: How can I determine if a point is a given distance from a secondpoint?

On Mar 31, 1:58 pm, thomasnguyencom <thomasnguyen.. .@gmail.comwrot e:

On Mar 31, 1:24 pm, "Tom P." <padilla.he...@ gmail.comwrote:
>

I am writing a drawing program but I want to keep the scale down
(there could end up being several hundred objects on the screen).

>

I want to limit the points collected to a certain distance from other
points already collected, in other words, if you're drawing a line it
will only record points on the line every 6 pixels. How do I determine
how far away one point is from another? if they are restricted to
straight lines that's fine but as soon as they draw at an angle I'm
faced with determining how far away one point is from another in co-
ordinate space.

>

Any help would be appreciated.

>

Tom P.

>
Point x = new Point(1, 2);
Point y = new Point(3, 4);
double distance = Point.Distance( x, y);
>
I hope that helps.
>
goodluck,
-tom

You're kidding? All the crap I went through and it's already a
framework method? I could choke myself.

Thank you very much. I'm sorry I didn't look harder.

Tom P.

[Israel]

Re: How can I determine if a point is a given distance from a secondpoint?

On Mar 31, 2:58 pm, thomasnguyencom <thomasnguyen.. .@gmail.comwrot e:

On Mar 31, 1:24 pm, "Tom P." <padilla.he...@ gmail.comwrote:
>

I am writing a drawing program but I want to keep the scale down
(there could end up being several hundred objects on the screen).

>

I want to limit the points collected to a certain distance from other
points already collected, in other words, if you're drawing a line it
will only record points on the line every 6 pixels. How do I determine
how far away one point is from another? if they are restricted to
straight lines that's fine but as soon as they draw at an angle I'm
faced with determining how far away one point is from another in co-
ordinate space.

>

Any help would be appreciated.

>

Tom P.

>
Point x = new Point(1, 2);
Point y = new Point(3, 4);
double distance = Point.Distance( x, y);
>
I hope that helps.
>
goodluck,
-tom

If the distance cutoff is constant you're going to be executing this
many times or for many points you might want to do the math manually
and then compare against distance squared instead e.g. distance^2 =
(x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2

[Tom P.]

Re: How can I determine if a point is a given distance from a secondpoint?

On Mar 31, 1:58 pm, thomasnguyencom <thomasnguyen.. .@gmail.comwrot e:

On Mar 31, 1:24 pm, "Tom P." <padilla.he...@ gmail.comwrote:
>

I am writing a drawing program but I want to keep the scale down
(there could end up being several hundred objects on the screen).

>

I want to limit the points collected to a certain distance from other
points already collected, in other words, if you're drawing a line it
will only record points on the line every 6 pixels. How do I determine
how far away one point is from another? if they are restricted to
straight lines that's fine but as soon as they draw at an angle I'm
faced with determining how far away one point is from another in co-
ordinate space.

>

Any help would be appreciated.

>

Tom P.

>
Point x = new Point(1, 2);
Point y = new Point(3, 4);
double distance = Point.Distance( x, y);
>
I hope that helps.
>
goodluck,
-tom

On second thought... no it doesn't help.

I'm not finding that static method. Am I missing a namespace or
something?

Tom P.

[Tom P.]

Re: How can I determine if a point is a given distance from a secondpoint?

On Mar 31, 2:15 pm, Israel <israeldip...@h otmail.comwrote :

On Mar 31, 2:58 pm, thomasnguyencom <thomasnguyen.. .@gmail.comwrot e:
>
>
>

On Mar 31, 1:24 pm, "Tom P." <padilla.he...@ gmail.comwrote:

>

I am writing a drawing program but I want to keep the scale down
(there could end up being several hundred objects on the screen).

>

I want to limit the points collected to a certain distance from other
points already collected, in other words, if you're drawing a line it
will only record points on the line every 6 pixels. How do I determine
how far away one point is from another? if they are restricted to
straight lines that's fine but as soon as they draw at an angle I'm
faced with determining how far away one point is from another in co-
ordinate space.

>

Any help would be appreciated.

>

Tom P.

>

Point x = new Point(1, 2);
Point y = new Point(3, 4);
double distance = Point.Distance( x, y);

>

I hope that helps.

>

goodluck,
-tom

>
If the distance cutoff is constant you're going to be executing this
many times or for many points you might want to do the math manually
and then compare against distance squared instead e.g. distance^2 =
(x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2

This is what I'm going to be using. I'll just do the math myself. I
never did find the method referred to, I don't know where tom got it
but he's got me beat.

Thanks for the help guys.

Tom P.

[Peter Webb]

Re: How can I determine if a point is a given distance from a second point?


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On Mar 31, 1:58 pm, thomasnguyencom <thomasnguyen.. .@gmail.comwrot e:

>On Mar 31, 1:24 pm, "Tom P." <padilla.he...@ gmail.comwrote:
>>

I am writing a drawing program but I want to keep the scale down
(there could end up being several hundred objects on the screen).

>>

I want to limit the points collected to a certain distance from other
points already collected, in other words, if you're drawing a line it
will only record points on the line every 6 pixels. How do I determine
how far away one point is from another? if they are restricted to
straight lines that's fine but as soon as they draw at an angle I'm
faced with determining how far away one point is from another in co-
ordinate space.

>>

Any help would be appreciated.

>>

Tom P.

>>
>Point x = new Point(1, 2);
>Point y = new Point(3, 4);
>double distance = Point.Distance( x, y);
>>
>I hope that helps.
>>
>goodluck,
>-tom

>
On second thought... no it doesn't help.
>
I'm not finding that static method. Am I missing a namespace or
something?
>
Tom P.

Distance between (x1,y1) and (x2,y2)
= sqrt((x1-x2)*(x1-x2) + (y1-y2)*(y1-y2))

(Pythagoras's theorem).