I'm slowly starting to understand 3d vectors. I hope someone can explain further.
I'm trying to calculate the angles between 8 lines in 3D space. I have the start and end point of each line as a 3d vector. A previous suggestion was:
"You first need to write each one as a unit vector, which means dividing all of the values through by a value so that the magnitude will be 1. For each of these vectors, this means dividing by the length of the vector."
That makes sense, I think. Can someone check my sums to be sure I'm doing it
For example, here is the first set of points:
From: 0.0548981, -0.0473777, -0.12331
To: 0.0595451, -0.0757554, -0.055356
So...
Endpoint minus start point:
0.0595451, -0.0757554, -0.055356
Gives vector length 0.073787767
So the unit vector is:
0.062977919, -0.384585428, 0.92093856
Is that correct?
Where do I go from here?
2006-11-13
09:40:47
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