WTD: point intersection in space
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- Subject: [mg48363] WTD: point intersection in space
- From: dont at agora.rdrop.com (Don Taylor)
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 07:18:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I've looked carefully at Wickham-Jone's "Mathematica Graphics", based on recommendations from old newsgroup postings, and it is a good resource. But I'm looking for a method that he doesn't seem to include. For all this I can ensure that a unique solution does exist, but would like to handle tiny errors as are neatly handled by Wickham-Jones with his methods. In n-dimensional euclidian space n (n-1)-dimensional objects intersect at a unique point. For example, in 2-space 2 1-d lines intersect in a point, in 3-space 3 2-d planes intersect in a point. I'm trying to find the general pattern that solves for this in n-space. At the moment I'd settle for seeing very similar developments for 2-space and 3-space. Maybe from that I could guess what this would look like for n-space. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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