def point2segment_dist(point, segment):
"""
Return the distance between a segment of a line and a point
:param point:
:param segment:
:return:
"""
sp_vec = Vec(segment[0], point) # create a vector from start of the segment to the point
seg_vec = Vec(segment) # create a vector along the segment
proj_scale = seg_vec.proj(sp_vec, True) # project the sp_vector to the segment vector and get the ration of the
# length of those two parallel vectors
if proj_scale <= 0: # if the projection has not the same direction
dist = sp_vec.length
elif proj_scale >= 1: # if the projection is longer than the segment vector
dist = Vec(segment[1], point).length
else: # get the length from the part of sg_vec orthogonal to the segment vector
ortho_v = seg_vec.proj(sp_vec) - sp_vec
dist = ortho_v.length
return dist
v + 2 # adds 2 to every coord
v + w # adds coordinate by coordinate
# multiply by scalar
v * 3 # or 3 * v
# dot product
v.dot(w)
# get a norm
v.norm('inf') # the default is the Euclidean norm (p=2)
# get the length of a vector
v.length # this is just v.norm(2)
# get the dimension
v.dim
# project one vector onto another
w_proj_v = v.proj(w)
# get length ration of a vector and the projectoin of another vector onto it
ratio = v.proj(w, get_scale=True)
# iterate through coordinates
print [xi for xi in v]
# string representation
print str(v)
print '{:[x, y, z]}'.format(v)
