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RegionDistance[reg,p]
gives the minimum distance from the point p to the region reg.
RegionDistance[reg1,reg2]
gives the minimum distance between points in the regions reg1 and reg2.
Examplesopen allclose all Basic Examples (2)Find the distance from a point to the unit disk:
Plot the distance as a function of position:
Find the distance from a point to a MeshRegion:
With one argument, you get a RegionDistanceFunction:
Apply the distance function lists of points to compute many distances:
Scope (15) Special Regions (9)Plot the distance from a three-point set:
Plot the distance to a rectangle:
Plot the distance to a 2D simplex:
Plot the distance to a 2D ellipsoid:
Plot the distance to a circle:
Equidistance contours for a cylinder:
Formula Regions (2)The distance to a disk represented as an ImplicitRegion:
The distance to a disk represented as a ParametricRegion:
Using a rational parametrization of the disk:
Applications (5)Compute the height of a triangle:
Create a region that is a distance from a circle:
Visualize the region and circle:
Compute the dilation of a region:
The directed Hausdorff distance from region to is defined as . Use RegionDistance to compute the directed Hausdorff distance from =Triangle[{{0,0},{2,0},{0,1}}] to ℬ=Triangle[{{0,0},{1,0},{0,3/2}}]:
Find the nearest distance to any point in :
As expected, the distance is zero for points in that overlap with :
Find the directed Hausdorff distance by maximizing over :
If , you can conclude that where is the closure of and . Show that for the regions in this example:
The Hausdorff distance between region and is defined as where is the directed Hausdorff distance in the previous example. Use RegionDistance to compute the Hausdorff distance between =Triangle[{{0,0},{2,0},{0,1}}] and ℬ=Triangle[{{0,0},{1,0},{0,3/2}}]:
Find the directed Hausdorff distances:
If , you can conclude that and , as in the previous example. Show that and for the regions in this example:
Properties & Relations (4) Wolfram Research (2014), RegionDistance, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionDistance.html (updated 2023). TextWolfram Research (2014), RegionDistance, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionDistance.html (updated 2023).
CMSWolfram Language. 2014. "RegionDistance." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2023. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionDistance.html.
APAWolfram Language. (2014). RegionDistance. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionDistance.html
BibTeX@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_regiondistance, author="Wolfram Research", title="{RegionDistance}", year="2023", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionDistance.html}", note=[Accessed: 11-July-2025 ]}
BibLaTeX@online{reference.wolfram_2025_regiondistance, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={RegionDistance}, year={2023}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionDistance.html}, note=[Accessed: 11-July-2025 ]}
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