westloar
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2012-04-27 21:13:29 » |
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What's the best way of find a line's length, subtracting one Point from another seems clunky and I can't see an inbuilt method in Line2D, is there a better way?
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ra4king
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Reply #1 - Posted
2012-04-27 21:20:28 » |
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What about the elementary line distance formula which you should have learned in middle school/early high school? (unless you're younger  ) sqrt((x1-x2) ^ 2 + (y1-y2) ^ 2) 1
| double distance = Math.sqrt((x1-x2) * (x1-x2) + (y1-y2) * (y1-y2)); |

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krasse
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Reply #2 - Posted
2012-04-27 21:36:59 » |
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Also, the following static methods exist: 1 2
| Point2D.distance(double x1, double y1, double x2, double y2) Point2D.distanceSq(double x1, double y1, double x2, double y2) |
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sproingie
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Reply #4 - Posted
2012-04-27 21:56:42 » |
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Yes, not taking the square root if you don't have to is a nice optimization, but the question was about finding distance. Let's not confuse people unnecessarily...
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Riven
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Reply #5 - Posted
2012-04-27 22:05:54 » |
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I have to agree with sproingie: I think optimizing out Math.sqrt(...) and replacing it with two Math.pow(...)'s is offtopic, confusing and hilarious. Not to mention the if/else blocks that return false and true 
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westloar
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Reply #6 - Posted
2012-04-27 22:36:19 » |
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thanks, I'll use the solution from Point2D methinks, much easier to use and get my tiny brain around 
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StumpyStrust
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Reply #7 - Posted
2012-04-28 00:45:21 » |
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Ehh I know it may have been a little too off topic but I think he would have been able to figure it out in like 2 secs from the formula and the 2 Math.pows was because I was lazy and hate typing code into a post.
In my actual code I try to use as little possible from the Math class. And sorry if it was too confusing...I am not the best at explaining things.
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ReBirth
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Reply #8 - Posted
2012-04-28 03:15:23 » |
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If you want to avoid square root in collision, try to check both X and Y first without bring them to pythagoras.
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Roquen
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Reply #9 - Posted
2012-04-28 17:54:18 » |
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Because typing: Math.pow(x,2) is shorter than x*x?
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Riven
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Reply #10 - Posted
2012-04-28 17:57:43 » |
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To be fair, in his example that would be: Math.pow((x1-x2),2) (x1-x2)*(x1-x2)which still proves your point 
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StumpyStrust
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Reply #11 - Posted
2012-04-28 22:59:16 » |
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Geez normally I don't take offense to stuff but man it really seems like I must have come across rude or something because you guys are down my throat here. I will admit that I was wrong in my earlier post that Math.pow or what ever is longer but come on now no need to point out the obvious error. If it means that much to you guys I will change/remove my earlier posts so no one else will have to suffer from my horrible coding examples/posts. Just trying to help. 
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Riven
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Reply #12 - Posted
2012-04-28 23:08:38 » |
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Don't take it so personal.
There was a question, you answered it with something that actually did not solve his problem, introduced slow code for the sake of optimization, and then you defended it by saying you wanted to provide a short code sample, while the correct and faster version was shorter.
Can't we point that out? We're not out to pick on you, just responding to what you actually said...
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StumpyStrust
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Reply #13 - Posted
2012-04-28 23:35:54 » |
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All true.
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Roquen
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Reply #14 - Posted
2012-04-29 06:25:03 » |
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Note that if you want the length/magnitude AND want short code then you can alway use hypot. But you don't really want to do that in games because you shouldn't care about overflow/underflow issues.
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