shortest distance between two circles in 3D

Returns the shortest distance between two circles in 3D, the pair(s) of closest points, and if the circles are equidistant.

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Aaron T. Becker's Robot Swarm Lab (2026). shortest distance between two circles in 3D (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/128183-shortest-distance-between-two-circles-in-3d), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.0.3

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1.0.2

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1.0.1

If the min distance points on circle 0 and 1 both differ by less than PRECISION, the code now declares they are equivalent and only returns 1 pair. Also added extra debugging cases to testdistanceCircleCircle3D().

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1.0.0

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