Operator Reference
distance_cc (Operator)
distance_cc — Calculate the distance between two contours.
Signature
distance_cc(Contour1, Contour2 : : Mode : DistanceMin, DistanceMax)
Description
The operator distance_cc calculates the minimum and maximum
distance between the base points of two contours (Contour1
and Contour2).
The parameters DistanceMin and DistanceMax
contain the resulting distance.
The parameter Mode sets the type of computing the
distance: 'point_to_point' only determines the minimum and
maximum distance between the base points of the contours. This results in
faster algorithm, but may lead to inaccurate minimum
distances. In contrast, 'point_to_segment' determines the
actual minimum distance between the contour segments.
In both cases, the search algorithm has a quadratic complexity (n*n).
If only the minimum distance is required, the operator
distance_cc_min can be used alternatively since it offers
algorithms with a complexity of n*log(n).
Parameter Broadcasting
This operator supports parameter broadcasting. This means that each parameter can be given as a tuple of length 1 or N. Parameters with tuple length 1 will be repeated internally such that the number of computed distances is always N.
Execution Information
- Multithreading type: reentrant (runs in parallel with non-exclusive operators).
- Multithreading scope: global (may be called from any thread).
- Processed without parallelization.
Parameters
Contour1 (input_object) xld_cont(-array) → object
First input contour.
Contour2 (input_object) xld_cont(-array) → object
Second input contour.
Mode (input_control) string(-array) → (string)
Distance calculation mode.
Default: 'point_to_point'
List of values: 'point_to_point', 'point_to_segment'
DistanceMin (output_control) real(-array) → (real)
Minimum distance between both contours.
DistanceMax (output_control) real(-array) → (real)
Maximum distance between both contours.
Example (C)
gen_contour_polygon_rounded_xld(Cont1, [0,100,100,0,0], [0,0,100,100,0],
[50,50,50,50,50], 0.5);
gen_contour_polygon_rounded_xld(Cont2, [41,91,91,41,41], [41,41,91,91,41],
[25,25,25,25,25], 0.5);
distance_cc(Cont1, Cont2, 'point_to_point', &distance_min, &distance_max);
Result
distance_cc returns 2 (
H_MSG_TRUE)
.
Alternatives
distance_sc,
distance_pc,
distance_cc_min,
distance_contours_xld
See also
Module
Foundation