Cylinder Distance Queries

[ashtanmistal]

Hello,

Is it possible to add Circle-Cylinder and Cylinder-Cylinder distance queries to GTE?

Cheers,

Ashtan

[davideberly]

I have added these to my TODO list. The initial versions might not have optimal performance, probably using an iterative numerical minimizer to compute the distance. Later I will think about algorithms with better performance, taking advantage of the geometric nature of the query objects.

At the moment I am finishing the implementations of distance queries for linear objects (line, ray, segment) and circular objects (circles, arcs). I will look at your request when I am finished with these.

[ashtanmistal]

Sounds good, thank you!