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Name | ### dist()
Examples |
    // Sets the background gray value based on the distance
    // of the mouse from the center of the screen
    void draw() {
      noStroke();
      float d = dist(width/2, height/2, mouseX, mouseY);
      float maxDist = dist(0, 0, width/2, height/2);
      float gray = map(d, 0, maxDist, 0, 255);
      fill(gray);
      rect(0, 0, width, height);
    }
Description | Calculates the distance between two points.
Syntax |
    dist(x1, y1, x2, y2)
    dist(x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2)
Parameters |
x1 | float: x-coordinate of the first point
y1 | float: y-coordinate of the first point
z1 | float: z-coordinate of the first point
x2 | float: x-coordinate of the second point
y2 | float: y-coordinate of the second point
z2 | float: z-coordinate of the second point
Returns | float

Updated on May 19, 2014 05:30:00pm PDT