From bb4bee762362061b7e807f3ef8bccccdc544812e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Janetzek <hannes.janetzek@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 15:57:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add GeometryUtils.squaredDistance(float[], a, b)

---
 vtm/src/org/oscim/utils/GeometryUtils.java | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vtm/src/org/oscim/utils/GeometryUtils.java b/vtm/src/org/oscim/utils/GeometryUtils.java
index c7b71969..4422c02b 100644
--- a/vtm/src/org/oscim/utils/GeometryUtils.java
+++ b/vtm/src/org/oscim/utils/GeometryUtils.java
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ public final class GeometryUtils {
 		return (area < 0 ? -area : area) * 0.5f;
 	}
 
+	public static float squaredDistance(float[] p, int a, int b) {
+		return (p[a] - p[b]) * (p[a] - p[b]) + (p[a + 1] - p[b + 1]) * (p[a + 1] - p[b + 1]);
+	}
+
 	/** square distance from a point a to a segment b,c */
 	// modified from https://github.com/ekeneijeoma/simplify-java
 	public static float squareSegmentDistance(float[] p, int a, int b, int c) {