Re: Spatial Extensions in MySQL: Multidimensional Points?

2006-02-07 Thread Brandon Ooi
Use 3d pythagorean theorem. the distance d between point1 (x1,y1,z1) and point2 (x2,y2,z2) is... d = sqrt((x1-x2)^2 + (y1-y2)^2 + (z1-z2)^2) as for building an index for this? i have no idea. but that is how you find the distance between two 3D points. b Jose Antonio wrote: MySQL offers Sp

Re: Spatial Extensions in MySQL: Multidimensional Points?

2006-02-07 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. For a pity, I do not have an exact answer on how to do your task in a best way with MySQL. Searching in the archives gave me these links: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/185851 http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/185846 Perhaps, you will need the help of stored routines or UDFs: http://dev.mys

Spatial Extensions in MySQL: Multidimensional Points?

2006-02-07 Thread Jose Antonio
MySQL offers Spacial Extensions to operate with points in a 2 dimensional space. For a project I'm working on, I need to work with points in an N dimensional space and measure the distance among them. Is there a clever do to solve the following problem?: Let's say I have 4 3D point (X,Y,Z): (0,0