shortest distance to line &/or perpendicular to line

[Cammer, Michael]

Hi.

We have a large object with a bunch of puncta inside it.   We want to calculate the shortest distance from each dot to the major axis.  Getting the major axis is simple and drawing it on the image is easy thanks to Wayne's macro.

Question:  Given this line and each x, y, location of a dot, there must be a simple formula to calculate the shortest distance to the line (a perpendicular).

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thank you!!

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http://www.intmath.com/plane-analytic-geometry/perpendicular-distance-point-line.php

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> On May 22, 2015, at 17:08 , Cammer, Michael <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> We have a large object with a bunch of puncta inside it.   We want to calculate the shortest distance from each dot to the major axis.  Getting the major axis is simple and drawing it on the image is easy thanks to Wayne's macro.
>
> Question:  Given this line and each x, y, location of a dot, there must be a simple formula to calculate the shortest distance to the line (a perpendicular).
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you!!
>
> =========================================================================
> Michael Cammer, Microscopy Core & Skirball Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center
>                      Cell:  914-309-3270     ** MY OFFICE HAS MOVED TO SKIRBALL 2nd FLOOR, Back right **
>          http://ocs.med.nyu.edu/microscopy & http://microscopynotes.com/
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[Jim Passmore-2]

From this <http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/macros/ToothRootToCrownRatio.txt> (
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/macros/ToothRootToCrownRatio.txt) IJ macro,

   function distance(x1, y1, x2, y2, px, py) {
      dx=x2-x1; dy=y2-y1;
      dd = sqrt(dx*dx+dy*dy);
      tx=dx/dd; ty=dy/dd;
      nx=-ty; ny=tx;
      acx = px-x1; acy=py-y1;
      return abs(acx*nx+acy*ny);
   }

Quickly looking over the code, I believe the inputs are a line segment
with endpoints at x1,y1 and x2,y2, and a point at px,py.




On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Cammer, Michael <[hidden email]
> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> We have a large object with a bunch of puncta inside it.   We want to
> calculate the shortest distance from each dot to the major axis.  Getting
> the major axis is simple and drawing it on the image is easy thanks to
> Wayne's macro.
>
> Question:  Given this line and each x, y, location of a dot, there must be
> a simple formula to calculate the shortest distance to the line (a
> perpendicular).
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you!!
>
> =========================================================================
> Michael Cammer, Microscopy Core & Skirball Institute, NYU Langone Medical
> Center
>                       Cell:  914-309-3270     ** MY OFFICE HAS MOVED TO
> SKIRBALL 2nd FLOOR, Back right **
>           http://ocs.med.nyu.edu/microscopy & http://microscopynotes.com/
>
>
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>

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[Cammer, Michael]

This was perfect.  Thank you!!

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http://microscopynotes.com/
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Subject: Re: shortest distance to line &/or perpendicular to line

From this <http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/macros/ToothRootToCrownRatio.txt> (
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/macros/ToothRootToCrownRatio.txt) IJ macro,

   function distance(x1, y1, x2, y2, px, py) {
      dx=x2-x1; dy=y2-y1;
      dd = sqrt(dx*dx+dy*dy);
      tx=dx/dd; ty=dy/dd;
      nx=-ty; ny=tx;
      acx = px-x1; acy=py-y1;
      return abs(acx*nx+acy*ny);
   }

Quickly looking over the code, I believe the inputs are a line segment
with endpoints at x1,y1 and x2,y2, and a point at px,py.




On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Cammer, Michael <[hidden email]
> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> We have a large object with a bunch of puncta inside it.   We want to
> calculate the shortest distance from each dot to the major axis.  Getting
> the major axis is simple and drawing it on the image is easy thanks to
> Wayne's macro.
>
> Question:  Given this line and each x, y, location of a dot, there must be
> a simple formula to calculate the shortest distance to the line (a
> perpendicular).
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you!!
>
> =========================================================================
> Michael Cammer, Microscopy Core & Skirball Institute, NYU Langone Medical
> Center
>                       Cell:  914-309-3270     ** MY OFFICE HAS MOVED TO
> SKIRBALL 2nd FLOOR, Back right **
>           http://ocs.med.nyu.edu/microscopy & http://microscopynotes.com/
>
>
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> ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html
>

*-- Jim Passmore*
Research Associate
Sealed Air Corporation

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