Points - XY for point A to B

12-21-2006, 02:51 AM	#1
Zandose	How do you find the distance for X and Y from one point to another? I'm trying to find out how many points it takes to get from point A to point B but I don't just want the distance. I want to know how many points up/down and left/right to get to point B.

12-21-2006, 02:58 AM	#2
Ammorth	x2 - x1, y2 - y1 x2, y2 being point B, x1, y1 being point one. Edit: Removed Abs(); didn't read question =D

12-21-2006, 03:12 AM

Pyrogasm

Damn, Ammorth beat me to it. I also just realized that what I wrote is incomplete as is. There's some more you'd have to do to get it to work.

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12-21-2006, 03:21 AM

xombie

I'm using JASS tags so that spaces will apply properly...

JASS:


                            o (Point: 5, 5)
                            |
                            |
                            |
       o--------------------|
 (Point: 0, 0)

Now, the difference in X values will be the second X-value, in this case '5', to the first X-value, in this case '0'. (5 - 0 = 5); Therefore, the X-value distance is 5. In this case, the Y-values are the same thing. In total you have a difference of 5 'x' values, and 5 'y' values. The actual distance would be (x² + y²)^½, or the square root of 50.

12-21-2006, 04:13 AM	#5
Zandose	I don't think this will work for me. The games map has minus numbers.

12-21-2006, 04:49 AM	#6
Ammorth	Negative numbers work in the formula provided. Example: A(-3,5), B(4,-8) 4 - (-3), -8 - 5 (7, -13) The negative specifies direction. If you don't believe me, draw yourself a grid and test it. =)

12-21-2006, 06:04 AM	#7
PipeDream	After careful deliberation, the most convoluted explanation I could manage.

12-22-2006, 09:27 PM	#8
Szythe	I chuckled (mainly because I understood some of it)