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Minimum Distance Explorer: Circle to Enclosed Polygon

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This Demonstration lets you explore the minimum distance between a point on a circle and a polygon inside it. You can drag or create locators inside the circle to configure the polygon.

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Mathematica's geometric functions RegionNearest and RegionDistance are used to find and measure the minimum distance.

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Contributed by: Erik Mahieu (November 2015)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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