[PD] GEM 3d movement

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
cyborgk at nocturnalnoize.com hat gesagt: // cyborgk at nocturnalnoize.com wrote:

> First, is there an external to calculate distance between 3d points?
> Should I just create an abstraction? I'd assume a C coded external would
> be most efficient for processing...

[expr sqrt($f1*$f4 + $f2*$f5 + $f3*$f6)]

Send it a list with "x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2". It's very fast.

> Second, and I guess this is a more math question than GEM questions, but I
> want objects to pick a random point in space, then fly to that point, but
> using a curved path rather than a straight line. What would be the
> simplest way to achieve this? 

[spline_path 3] or similar can do this.

> Finally, did anybody ever get flocking to work? I want to do flocking, but

Maybe check out the pso externals by Ben Bogart.

Ciao
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