DISTANCEPOINTTRIANGLE3D Minimum distance between a 3D point and a 3D triangle. DIST = distancePointTriangle3d(PT, TRI); Computes the minimum distance between the point PT and the triangle TRI. The Point PT is given as a row vector of three coordinates. The triangle TRI is given as a 3-by-3 array containing the coordinates of each vertex in a row of the array: TRI = [... X1 Y1 Z1;... X2 Y2 Z2;... X3 Y3 Z3]; [DIST, PROJ] = distancePointTriangle3d(PT, TRI); Also returns the coordinates of the projeced point. Example tri = [1 0 0; 0 1 0;0 0 1]; pt = [0 0 0]; dist = distancePointTriangle3d(pt, tri) dist = 0.5774 See also meshes3d, distancePointMesh, distancePointEdge3d, distancePointPlane Reference * David Eberly (1999), "Distance Between Point and Triangle in 3D" https://www.geometrictools.com/Documentation/DistancePoint3Triangle3.pdf * see Distance between a point and a triangle in 3d, by Gwendolyn Fischer. (same algorithm, but different order of input argument) * https://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22857-distance-between-a-point-and-a-triangle-in-3d
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