Diameter

Functionality

This node calculates the diameter of input set of vertices.

It can calculate diameter in two ways:

• General diameter, i.e. maximum distance between any two vertices from input set.

• Diameter along specified direction (axis), i.e. the length of the projection of whole input vertices set to specified direction.

Inputs

This node has the following inputs:

• Vertices - vertices to calculate diameter of. This input is mandatory for the node to function.

• Direction - direction, along which diameter should be calculated. If this input is not connected, then the node will calculate “general diameter” of input vertices set.

Outputs

This node has one output:

• Diameter - calculated diameter of vertices set.

See also

• Analyzers-> Bounding Box

• Analyzers-> Aligned Bounding Box

Examples of usage

Front View:

• Generator-> Suzanne

• Generator-> Box

• Generator-> Segment

• Analyzers-> Distance Point Line

• Analyzers-> Bounding Box

• Vector-> Vector In

• Vector-> Vector Out

• SCALAR, NEG: Vector-> Vector Math

• Matrix-> Matrix In

• Matrix-> Matrix Normal

• Viz-> Viewer Draw

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Suzanne has “general diameter” of 2.73:

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Diameter of Suzanne along some diagonal direction is 2.44. Here the direction is drawn as green line, and the projection of Suzanne to that direction is marked with red dots: