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RegionDistance—Wolfram Language Documentation

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BUILT-IN SYMBOL

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)

Points:

Plot the distance from a three-point set:

Lines:

Plot it:

Boxes:

Plot the distance to a rectangle:

Simplices:

Plot the distance to a 2D simplex:

Balls:

Plot the distance to a disk:

Ellipsoids:

Plot the distance to a 2D ellipsoid:

Circles and ellipses:

Plot the distance to a circle:

Cylinders and cones:

Equidistance contours for a cylinder:

Regions in :

Formula Regions  (2)

The distance to a disk represented as an ImplicitRegion:

A cylinder:

The distance to a disk represented as a ParametricRegion:

Using a rational parametrization of the disk:

A cylinder:

Applications  (5)

Compute the height of a triangle:

Visualize the 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 =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 =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). Text

Wolfram Research (2014), RegionDistance, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionDistance.html (updated 2023).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "RegionDistance." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2023. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionDistance.html.

APA

Wolfram 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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