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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Common Datamodel vtkLine.cpp has the following
paragraph for calculating distance between two lines,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial'> const double D = a*c -
b*b; // always >= 0<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial'> // compute the line parameters of the two
closest points<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial'> if (D < 1e-6)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
{ // the lines are almost
parallel<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>for rather small line segments, the a*c and b*b maybe
very small compare to 1e-6, which case, the used criterial for almost parallel
may cause error,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>maybe the D<1e-6 is better use floating criterial
value.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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