# Geodesic Distance for Unstructured Grids

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/geodesic-distance-for-unstructured-grids/12937
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 20, 2023, 1:09am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/geodesic-distance-for-unstructured-grids/12937 "2023-12-20T01:09:10Z")
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### Author: ![adeelz92](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/adeelz92/32/4963_2.png) [@adeelz92](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/adeelz92)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2023, 1:09am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/geodesic-distance-for-unstructured-grids/12937/1 "2023-12-20T01:09:10Z")

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Is there a way to compute geodesic distance (can be approximate) from one cell to another in an unstructured grid? vtkDijkstraGraphGeodesicPath only takes polygonal mesh as input!