from Andrew Hale (trumanblending), with some edits to use these in mathutils.Vector added.
Added Functions:
- dot_vn_vn - Dot product of two arrays
- normalize_vn_vn - Normalize an array and store the result in a second array
- normalize_vn - Normalize an array inplace
Renamed Functions:
Some functions have been renamed to make them consistent with the naming conventions used by fixed length array functions.
- fill_vni to fill_vn_i
- fill_vn to fill_vn_fl
if vec.dot(vec) > some_distance*some_distance:
do_something()
might not be quite as obvious looking as:
if vec.length_squared > some_distance*some_distance:
do_something()
As to why you'd want to use length_squared over length is that length uses a square root, which isn't always necessary for simple distance checks (e.g., closest object, checks like the ones above, ect).
vector * matrix
vector *= matrix
vector * quaternion
vector *= quaternion
Use the reverse order instead, enable WITH_ASSERT_ABORT in cmake to promote the warnings into errors.
