I have multiple sets of coordinates and I am looking to calculate the distance between each pair. Despite being able to compute the distances, I am struggling to display the corresponding coordinate pairs in my program.
import itertools
import math
point1 = (1,1,0.5)
point2 = (3,3,1)
point3 = (2,0.5,2)
point4 = (0.5,2,1)
points = [(point1),(point2),(point3),(point4)]
pointsPairs = itertools.combinations(points, 2)
for pair in pointsPairs:
x1 = pair[0][0]
y1 = pair[0][1]
z1 = pair[0][2]
x2 = pair[1][0]
y2 = pair[1][1]
z2 = pair[1][2]
"""Define a function to calculate the distance between two sets of coordinates"""
def calculate_distance(x1,y1,x2,y2,z1,z2):
dist=math.sqrt((x2 - x1)**2 + (y2 - y1)**2 + (z2-z1)**2)
return dist
d=calculate_distance(x1,y1,x2,y2,z1,z2)
print d
This results in:
2.87228132327
1.87082869339
1.22474487139
2.87228132327
2.69258240357
2.34520787991
I want to format the output like this for each combination:
"Distance between point1 and point2 is"
2.87228132327