Get distance between two points in canvas

Question

You can do it with pythagoras theorem

If you have two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) then you can calculate the difference in x and difference in y, lets call them a and b.

var a = x1 - x2;
var b = y1 - y2;

var c = Math.sqrt( a*a + b*b );

// c is the distance

Note that Math.hypot is part of the ES2015 standard. There's also a good polyfill on the MDN doc for this feature.

So getting the distance becomes as easy as Math.hypot(x2-x1, y2-y1).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance

If you have the coordinates, use the formula to calculate the distance:

var dist = Math.sqrt( Math.pow((x1-x2), 2) + Math.pow((y1-y2), 2) );

If your platform supports the ** operator, you can instead use that:

const dist = Math.sqrt((x1 - x2) ** 2 + (y1 - y2) ** 2);

To find the distance between 2 points, you need to find the length of the hypotenuse in a right angle triangle with a width and height equal to the vertical and horizontal distance:

Math.hypot(endX - startX, endY - startY)

The distance between two coordinates x and y! x1 and y1 is the first point/position, x2 and y2 is the second point/position!

function diff (num1, num2) {
  if (num1 > num2) {
    return (num1 - num2);
  } else {
    return (num2 - num1);
  }
};

function dist (x1, y1, x2, y2) {
  var deltaX = diff(x1, x2);
  var deltaY = diff(y1, y2);
  var dist = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(deltaX, 2) + Math.pow(deltaY, 2));
  return (dist);
};