Re: Re: Finding the periphery of a region
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- Subject: [mg72042] Re: [mg72005] Re: Finding the periphery of a region
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:09:51 -0500 (EST)
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It's well known fact in real algebraic geometry that this does not
work in general. Here is a well known example example (also included
in my response to the OP):
x^3 - x^2 - y^2 > 0 && x < 10
The boundary is not x^3 - x^2 - y^2 >= 0 && x <= 10
This can be seen also on a picture:
<<Graphics`InequalityGraphics`
InequalityPlot[x^3-x^2-y^2>0&&x<10,{x},{y}]
You can see that the point {0,0} which lies on x^3 - x^2 - y^2 == 0
is not on the boundary of the region.
Andrzej Kozlowski
On 8 Dec 2006, at 20:17, dh wrote:
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> Hi,
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> try replacing inequalities by equalities. This should work fine as
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> as you do not have intersecting regions. E.g.:
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> x^2+y^2<100 ==> x^2+y^2=100, obviously a circle
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> (5<=x<=25 and -10<=y<=10) ===>( x==5&&-10<=y<=10) ||
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> (x==25&&-10<=y<=10) || (5<=x<=25&&y==-10) || (5<=x<=25&&y==10), four
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> line segements.
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> Daniel
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> Bonny Banerjee wrote:
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>> I have a region specified by a logical combination of equatlities and
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>> inequalities. For example, r(x,y) is a region defined as follows:
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>> r(x,y) = x^2+y^2<100 or (5<=x<=25 and -10<=y<=10)
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>> How do I obtain the periphery of r(x,y)? I am only interested in
>> finite
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>> regions i.e. x or y never extends to infinity.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Bonny.
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- References:
- Re: Finding the periphery of a region
- From: dh <dh@metrohm.ch>
- Re: Finding the periphery of a region