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The three possible plane-line relationships in three dimensions. (Shown in each case is only a portion of the plane, which extends infinitely far.) In analytic geometry, the intersection of a line and a plane in three-dimensional space can be the empty set, a point, or a line. It is the entire line if that line is embedded in the plane, and is ...
Line–plane intersection. The intersection of a line and a plane in general position in three dimensions is a point. Commonly a line in space is represented parametrically ((), (), ()) and a plane by an equation + + =. Inserting the parameter representation into the equation yields the linear equation
The power diagram of a set of circles divides the plane into regions within which the circle minimizing the power is constant. More generally, French mathematician Edmond Laguerre defined the power of a point with respect to any algebraic curve in a similar way.
The intersection of two planes. The analytic determination of the intersection curve of two surfaces is easy only in simple cases; for example: a) the intersection of two planes, b) plane section of a quadric (sphere, cylinder, cone, etc.), c) intersection of two quadrics in special cases. For the general case, literature provides algorithms ...
Draw any three different lines through the given point P that intersect the circle twice. Let A 1, A 2, B 1, B 2, C 1, C 2 be the six intersection points, with the same letter corresponding to the same line and the index 1 corresponding to the point closer to P. Let D be the point where the lines A 1 B 2 and A 2 B 1 intersect, Similarly E for ...
In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero dimensions), a line (one dimension) and three-dimensional space. When working exclusively in two-dimensional Euclidean space, the definite article is used, so the Euclidean plane refers to the ...
Assume that we want to find intersection of two infinite lines in 2-dimensional space, defined as a 1 x + b 1 y + c 1 = 0 and a 2 x + b 2 y + c 2 = 0. We can represent these two lines in line coordinates as U 1 = (a 1, b 1, c 1) and U 2 = (a 2, b 2, c 2). The intersection P′ of two lines is then simply given by [4]
The two skew perpendicular opposite edges of a regular tetrahedron define a set of parallel planes. When one of these planes intersects the tetrahedron the resulting cross section is a rectangle. [11] When the intersecting plane is near one of the edges the rectangle is long and skinny. When halfway between the two edges the intersection is a ...