Trilateration calculates the position of an unknown point, using the distance from three known points to it.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

And then execute:

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install trilateration

Usage

p1 = Vector[1, 2, 0]
p2 = Vector[8, 6, 0]
p3 = Vector[1, 6, 0]
tri = Trilateration::Calculate.new(p1, p2, p3)

output = tri.calculate_from_distances(4.02305854, 4.29941857, 3.87104637)

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/patrickread/trilateration/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request