python求投影距离_使用python计算向量投影

Is there an easier command to compute vector projection?

I am instead using the following:

x = np.array([ 3, -4, 0])

y = np.array([10, 5, -6])

z=float(np.dot(x, y))

z1=float(np.dot(x, x))

z2=np.sqrt(z1)

z3=(z/z2**2)

x*z3

解决方案

Maybe this is what you really want:

np.dot(x, y) / np.linalg.norm(y)

This should give the projection of vector x onto vector y - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_projection. Alternatively, if you want to compute the projection of y onto x, then replace y with x in the denominator (norm) of the above equation.

EDIT: As @VaidAbhishek commented, the above formula is for the scalar projection. To obtain vector projection multiply scalar projection by a unit vector in the direction of the vector onto which the first vector is projected. The formula then can be modified as:

y * np.dot(x, y) / np.dot(y, y)

for the vector projection of x onto y.