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How to get the unit vector from a numpy array [duplicate]

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Lets say I have a vector v, and I want the unit vector, i.e. v has length 1.0 Is there a direct way to get that from numpy?

I want something like:

import numpy as np v=np.arrange(3) v_hat = v.norm() 

Rather than,

length = np.linalg.norm(v) v_hat = v / length 
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CodingFrog Avatar asked Oct 12 '18 14:10

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1 Answers

There's no function in numpy for that. Just divide the vector by its length.

v_hat = v / (v**2).sum()**0.5 

or

v_hat = v / np.linalg.norm(v) 
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blue_note Avatar answered Oct 09 '22 01:10

blue_note