How can I see the distance between an empty and the origin of the object that has the geometry node?

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How can I see the distance between and empty and the origin of the object that has the geometry node network displayed in the spreadsheet? There doesn’t seem to be a node that just gives me the origin point of the (self) object that has the node network on it.

I can control the scale of an object based on the distance between an Empty and the world origin but I can’t figure out how to control the scale of an object based on the distance between an Empty and an object that uses the Geometry Node network.

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lol, I have no idea what I’m doing.

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Hi,
An Object Info node pointing to itself gives you the location (position of the origin point) of the object.
From there you can scale an object relative to another object´s location.

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I don´t know if this is what you want.

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Thanks. That was almost what I wanted. Your way causes the mesh to move away from the origin point though.

This is what I wanted:

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As the cylinder and icosphere get closer together, the icosphere shrinks down to original size, but no smaller than that. As they get further apart the icosphere grows to a maximum of 10 times its original size.