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CHAPTER 10 DISTANCE IN 3D

10.1 INTRODUCTION

Suppose we have two geometric objects A and B, and we wish to compute the distance between them. If we consider each object to be represented by parametric functions and with and , then there is a general method for computing the distance. This method consists of finding a point on A and a point on B

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