distance between point and line segments

Version 1.0.1 (1.29 KB) by Mustafa Codur
the shortest distance between a line segment and a point
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Updated 12 Aug 2021

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It provides not only the distance between a line segment and a point it also give the position of the nearest point.
v1, and v2 are the starting and ending positions of the line segment, while pt is the position of the point.
source is Malcolm Kesson

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Mustafa Codur (2024). distance between point and line segments (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/97462-distance-between-point-and-line-segments), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2021a
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