I have a set of 3D points (x,y,z) , I want to take each point and calculate the sum of distances from all other points from this point and find the minimum of it , could you help me with codes?

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Akshit on 30 Jun 2014

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Image Analyst on 30 Jun 2014

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Edited: Image Analyst on 30 Jun 2014

Did you try this:

distances = sqrt((xp - xyz(:,1))^2 + (yp - xyz(:,2))^2 + (zp - xyz(:,3))^2);
sumOfDistances = sum(distances);
[minDistance, indexOfMin] = min(distances);

where (xp, yp, zp) is the single point, and xyz is the array of all points?