{"id":451,"date":"2010-05-14T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2010\/05\/14\/code-review-finding-the-closest-point-on-a-surface\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T14:09:36","slug":"code-review-finding-the-closest-point-on-a-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2010\/05\/14\/code-review-finding-the-closest-point-on-a-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Code review: finding the closest point on a surface"},"content":{"rendered":"This video shows the implementation of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2010\/05\/05\/set-up-finding-closest-point-on-a-surface\/\">the plan for how to find the closest point on a surface to a given point<\/a>. This is a numerical approximation that avoids the inevitable complexities of solving the problem exactly with computational geometry techniques. \r\n\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877437046001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2010\/05\/14\/code-review-finding-the-closest-point-on-a-surface\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/ab8f379b-2fd3-4bec-9b0a-a653004e148e\/79f360ca-6cd2-444e-a66e-be9b5d92c13b\/160x90\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">7:30<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>This video shows the implementation of the plan for how to find the closest point on a surface to a given point. This is a numerical approximation that avoids the inevitable complexities of solving&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2010\/05\/14\/code-review-finding-the-closest-point-on-a-surface\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}