Calculating distance between XYZ coordinates

Hannes Arvid Andersson

Hi folks,

I am receiving position trackings from sensors in the form of XYZ coordinates, and I would like to calculate the distance between them to map that to some sound happenings, but I am not sure about the math to use.
I initially thought of adding up the differences between the Xs Ys & Zs, but then realised that is not going to work.

Any ideas on how to do it?
Or is there perhaps a max object that would do this for me?

Much appreciated!

11OLSEN

Euclidean distance!

Hannes Arvid Andersson

@11OLSEN

Ok, quick search on this concept seems to confirm that this could be a way to go, but I am afraid my math is not very advanced, do you mind giving me some pointers about how to do that?

11OLSEN

11euclidean_distance.maxpat

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Here it is with 4 dimensions but you can simply change the list length

Hannes Arvid Andersson

Thanks a lot!

Marijn C

Hey this is great,

Any idea how to get the angle between the two points for azimuth and elevation?

Roman Thilenius

cartopol/poltocar?

Oni Shogun

euclidian dist

vector1 vector2
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vexpr pow($f1-$f2,2)
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expr sqrt($f1+$f2+$f3)
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distance