Wossys, circle tangent MSN convo:

[NoteMe]

First you have two circles. No matter what size:

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then draw a line between the center points of the circles:


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then rotate the line 90 deg.


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then scale it using the radius of THAT circle, so it hits the edge of the circle:

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then do the same with the other circle, and you have the two points.


Actualy you don't have to even scale it. Just use the rad in THAT direction.



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[wossname]

That works when radius1 == radius2.

But when the circles are different sizes??

[wossname]

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Circle-CircleTangents.html

That looks workable.

Cheers for the help dude.