find the distance from each point in matrix B to all point in matrix A

Let's say: I have the matrix A containing of 5 points

   A=[ 5  5  1      ----> coordinate (x,y,z) of point A1       
       4  5  2      ----> coordinate (x,y,z) of point A2
       1  1  1      ----> coordinate (x,y,z) of point A3
       2  3  1      ----> coordinate (x,y,z) of point A4 
       6  1  7 ]    ----> coordinate (x,y,z) of point A5

And, I also have matrix B:

     B=[ 0  2  1      ----> coordinate (x,y,z) of point B1       
         4  1  1 ]    ----> coordinate (x,y,z) of point B2

How to find the Euclidean distance between each point in B and all points(1,2,3,4,5) in A.

Example:

distance between point B1 and points A1:

=sqrt{(5-0)^2+ (5-2)^2 + (1-1)^2}= 5.83

distance between point B1 and points A2

distance between point B1 and points A3

.......................................

distance between point B2 and points A1

distance between point B2 and points A2, A3,A4, A5

*I hope the result will be shown in matrix C(2-by-5)*

[Rik]

Knowing my answer on your previous question, what do you think would be the solution? It isn't that hard. Of course you could solve this with a loop, but there is a direct solution, for which you can use functions like repmat.

Show some effort.

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

Or

Dista = squeeze(sqrt(sum((A - reshape(B',1,3,[])).^2,2))); % New MATLAB
Dista = squeeze(sqrt(sum(bsxfun(@minus,A,reshape(B',1,3,[])).^2,2))); % Old MATLAB

[ha ha]

THANKS @Andrei Bobrov

Answer 2

[KSSV]

doc pdist and pdist2.

[Andrei Bobrov]

+1

[ha ha]

can you tell more detail about ur solution @KSSV ???

[Andrei Bobrov]

pdist2(A,B)

[Rik]

Typing doc pdist will open the documentation for the pdist function, which you can also find online. If you look at the 'see also' section, you will a find reference to the pdist2 function.

Knowing how to look for and read the documentation is a very useful skill. Extremely easy to learn, sometimes hard to master. Using your favorite internet search engine also helps out a lot.