can you explain what the function double Line::distToPoint(unsigned int index) does ?

kam3k / laser_line_extraction

A ROS package that extracts line segments from LaserScan messages.

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Closed mouad-boumediene closed 2 years ago

mouad-boumediene commented 2 years ago

what exactly the function distToPoint from the Line class does?

calculate the distance of a point to is orthogonal projection on the line segment?
calculate the distance of a point to the start of the line segment?

thanks in advance

kam3k commented 2 years ago

It is the distance of a point to its orthogonal projection on the line segment.