The GNU 3DLDF Polyhedra Page

Author: Laurence D. Finston

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Last updated: October 27, 2006.

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Introduction
Classifying Points with Respect to a Polyhedron
Intersections
Cuboids
Regular Platonic Polyhedra (Under Construction)
Semi-Regular Archimedean Polyhedra (Under Construction)
	Great Rhombicosidodecahedron
Catalan Solids (Archimedean Duals) (Under Construction)
	Rhombic Triacontahedron
Contact

[Polyhedron-Linear Path Intersection 2]

Parallel Projection, X-Z Plane

[Polyhedron-Linear Path Intersection 3]

Parallel Projection, X-Y Plane

[Polyhedron-Linear Path Intersection 4]

Parallel Projection, Z-Y Plane

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The Intersection of a Polyhedron and a Plane

2006.01.20.
The following four images illustrate the intersections of an icosahedron and plane. The 3DLDF code for generating these images is in plyhd_05.ldf.

[Polyhedron-Plane Intersection 1]

Perspective Projection

[Polyhedron-Plane Intersection 2]

Parallel Projection, X-Z Plane

[Polyhedron-Plane Intersection 3]

Parallel Projection, X-Y Plane

[Polyhedron-Plane Intersection 4]

Parallel Projection, Z-Y Plane

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The GNU 3DLDF Polyhedra Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Classifying Points with Respect to a Polyhedron

Intersections

The Intersection Points of a Polyhedron and a Linear Path

The Intersection of a Polyhedron and a Plane