I have a helix in parametric equations that wraps around the Z axis and a point in space. I want to determine the shortest distance between this helix and the point, how would i go about doing that?
I've tried using Pythagorean theorem to get the distance and then taking the derivative of the distance function to find the zeros but I can't seem to get an explicit equation for T and I'm stuck at that.
(I apologize for the tags, not sure how to tag it and I cant create new ones either)