Builtin: Add vector.angle(). Returns the angle between 2 vectors (#7738)

minetest · Mar 17, 2019 · 7f1c2b8 · 7f1c2b8
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diff --git a/builtin/common/vector.lua b/builtin/common/vector.lua
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ function vector.direction(pos1, pos2)
 	})
 end
 
+function vector.angle(a, b)
+	local dotp = a.x * b.x + a.y * b.y + a.z * b.z
+	local cpx = a.y * b.z - a.z * b.y
+	local cpy = a.z * b.x - a.x * b.z
+	local cpz = a.x * b.y - a.y * b.x
+	local crossplen = math.sqrt(cpx ^ 2 + cpy ^ 2 + cpz ^ 2)
+	return math.atan2(crossplen, dotp)
+end
+
 function vector.add(a, b)
 	if type(b) == "table" then
 		return {x = a.x + b.x,

diff --git a/doc/lua_api.txt b/doc/lua_api.txt
@@ -2399,6 +2399,8 @@ For the following functions, `v`, `v1`, `v2` are vectors,
     * Returns a boolean, `true` if the vectors are identical.
 * `vector.sort(v1, v2)`:
     * Returns in order minp, maxp vectors of the cuboid defined by `v1`, `v2`.
+* `vector.angle(v1, v2)`:
+    * Returns the angle between `v1` and `v2` in radians.
 
 For the following functions `x` can be either a vector or a number: