Calculate Volume of any Tetrahedron given 4 points

Question

I need to calculate the volume of a tetrahedron given the coordinates of its four corner points.

Answer 1

Here is the code, in PHP, that calculates the Volume of any Tetrahedron given 4 points:

class Math{
public static function determinant(array $vals){
    $s = sizeof($vals);
    $sum = 0.0;
    for( $i=0; $i < $s ; $i++ ){
        $mult = 1.0;
        for($j=0; $j < $s ; $j++ ){
            $mult *= $vals[$j][ ($i+$j)%$s ];
        }
        $sum += $mult;
    }
    for( $i=0; $i < $s ; $i++ ){
        $mult = 1;
        for($j=0; $j < $s ; $j++ ){
            $mult *= $vals[$j][ ($i-$j < 0? $s - ($j-$i) :($i-$j)) ];
        }
        $sum -= $mult;
    }
    return $sum;
}

public static function subtract(array $a, array $b){
    for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($a); $i++)
        $a[$i] -= $b[$i];

    return $a;
}
}
// TEST CASE
$a = array(0,0,0);
$d = array(2,0,0);
$c = array(0,2,0);
$b = array(0,0,2);

echo abs(Math::determinant(array(
Math::subtract($a, $b),
Math::subtract($b, $c),
Math::subtract($c, $d),
)))/6;