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Re: Simplex visualization

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  • Subject: [mg31155] Re: [mg31148] Simplex visualization
  • From: BobHanlon at aol.com
  • Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 04:11:48 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In a message dated 2001/10/13 4:02:31 AM, borut at email.si writes:

>I did computation on linear programming.
>
>I would like to find the solution for N = 3 (three variables, 3D space)
>by a
>cool graphical analogy. Everybody is probably aware of the method:
>machete-cutting space, where you get a polyhedron out of it (the boundary
>faces are the constrains on variables).
>
>I can't implement the thinking into Mathematica. I have a cube and would
>like to slice it apart by some inequalities (space division) and equalities
>(surface filing).
>
>Something like Boolean function in 3D Studio Max where you produce solids...
>but 3DSMax isn't that math-oriented.
>
>Do you have any clue / idea for me?
>

Look at InequalityPlot3D in the standard add-on package 
Graphics`InequalityGraphics`


Bob Hanlon
Chantilly, VA  USA


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