closestApproachRay3dRay3d MethodStatic

Determine if two rays intersect, or are fully overlapped, or parallel but not coincident, or skew.

• Return a CurveLocationDetailPair which contains fraction and point on each ray and has annotation (in member approachType) indicating one of these relationships:
  • CurveCurveApproachType.Intersection -- the rays have a simple intersection, at fractions indicated in detailA and detailB
  • CurveCurveApproachType.PerpendicularChord -- there is pair of where the rays have closest approach. The rays are skew in space.
  • CurveCurveApproachType.CoincidentGeometry -- the rays are the same unbounded line in space. The fractions and points are a representative single common point.
  • CurveCurveApproachType.Parallel -- the rays are parallel (and not coincident). The two points are at the minimum distance

closestApproachRay3dRay3d(rayA: Ray3d, rayB: Ray3d): CurveLocationDetailPair

Returns - CurveLocationDetailPair

Defined in

• geometry3d/Ray3d.ts Line 503