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simple distance issue


nklviol

nklviol
Nov 13, 2012 at 3:17pm

simple distance issue

couldn’t seem to find an answer to my problem. just calculating the distance between two points in cv.jit.track: any idea what in my expression may cause a “nan” output? am I bracketing incorrectly?

expr sqrt((($i1 – $i2) ^ 2) + (($i3 – $i4) ^ 2))

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mradentz

mradentz
Nov 13, 2012 at 3:37pm

expr sqrt (((a-b)^2)+((c-d)^2)) i.e. the square root of the sum of the quantity of a – b squared plus the quantity c – d squared… right? looks right to me

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Emmanuel Jourdan

Emmanuel Jourdan
Nov 13, 2012 at 3:59pm

^ does a Bitwise XOR, try:

expr sqrt((($i1 - $i2) * ($i1 - $i2)) + (($i3 - $i4) * ($i3 - $i4)))

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$Adam

$Adam
Nov 13, 2012 at 4:02pm

Hi,

well, first you’re taking the difference of $i1 and $i2 and then you apply the ‘bitwise exclusive or’ operator with the result and 2. This is certainly NOT what you wish to achieve…

The ‘power’ function in expr is called ‘pow’, so you should do expr sqrt ( pow ( $i1 - $i2 , 2 ) + pow ( $i3 - $i4 , 2 ) ). On the other hand, the power function is quite expensive computationally compared to a simple multiplication, so for squaring a value, you should better use the form

expr sqrt ( ($i1 - $i2)*($i1 - $i2) + ($i3 - $i4)*($i3 - $i4) )

HTH,
Ádám

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nklviol

nklviol
Nov 13, 2012 at 6:27pm

ahh, thanks for identifying the snag

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mzed

mzed
Nov 13, 2012 at 6:40pm

Apropos of nothing, I’ll point out that polar coordinates are not the solution to the problem.

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Roman Thilenius

Roman Thilenius
Nov 13, 2012 at 10:07pm

where is c*c when you need it.

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mradentz

mradentz
Nov 14, 2012 at 6:00pm

sorry if I misinformed. “^” is a symbol for “the ‘bitwise exclusive or’ operator with the result and 2″?? Thought it indicated an exponent. My apologies.

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