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    Closest point on surface

    I have a grid of z points from griddata representing a surface. For an arbitrary coordinate (x,y,z) in space, how might I find the closest point (x,y,z) on the surface z. I need to do this many times and would rather not minimize the distance formula across all points. Dsearch,tsearch, etc...

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