Re: Visualization of Intersections
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- Subject: [mg22388] Re: Visualization of Intersections
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:55:28 -0500 (EST)
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Chris, "Intersections of Surfaces", Steven Wilkinson, Mathematica in Education and Research, Vol 8, No 2, Spring 1999. http://www.telospub.com/journal/MIER/index.html Allan --------------------- Allan Hayes Mathematica Training and Consulting Leicester UK www.haystack.demon.co.uk hay at haystack.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 (0)116 271 4198 Fax: +44 (0)870 164 0565 "Chris Tiee" <choni at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:89a462$9bf at smc.vnet.net... > Hello, > > I've been investigating plots of surfaces in space, and I've > encountered the classic problem of finding the volume between two > perpendicularly intersecting circular cylinders of the same radius (and > I will be working on the case for three cylinders as well). The > resulting volumes are very difficult to visualize. I searched for it on > the web, and have seen how they look, and some even had instructions on > how to do it in another system. > > With Mathematica, I have been able to examine the intersections (using > ContourPlot3D[], drawing the contours at 1), but I don't know how to to > customize the range of plotting so it shows the exact volume of > intersection, only cylinders with straight edges. > > I have already solved both of the problems, but how would I be able to > examine intersections of surfaces in general, with Mathematica? > > thanks in advance, > > Chris > > please send any email replies to choni at ucla.edu > > -- > Chris Tiee "Choni" | Primary email: choni at ucla.edu > Alternate emails: choni at cyberjunkie.com, ch0ni at hotmail.com > > -- > Chris Tiee "Choni" | Primary email: choni at > home.com > Alternate emails: choni at cyberjunkie.com, ch0ni > at hotmail.com > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. >