parallel to a tabulated surface
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- Subject: [mg84550] parallel to a tabulated surface
- From: Narasimham <mathma18 at hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:26:41 -0500 (EST)
How to find (X,Y,Z) for another parallel (Bertrand) surface at distance c from defined surface r = (x,y,z ) = f(u,v)? Finding unit vector of del r /del u X del r /del v along normal works for closed form surfaces, but how to handle for a surface when input is given as a table? TIA