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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


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