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- From: ross@ecr.mu.oz.au (Ross McAree)
- Subject: Re: Help using Macaulay to convert the tangential equation of a surface into a point equation
- Message-ID: <9223221.23972@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Summary: Error in original post
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:11:35 GMT
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- In a previous article I wrote
- >
- > The problem is one of converting a quartic envelop surface (QES) in R^3
- > into a point surface equation. I suspect that the point surface is a
- > sextic---certainly a number of sections through it are sextics. The
- > equation of the QES in terms of tangent plane variables (t, u, v, s)
- > is
- >
- > QES = (a^2 t^4 + b^2 u^4 + c^2 v^4)
- > -2 {b c u^2 v^2 + c a v^2 t^2 + a b t^2 u^2 + 2(t^2 + u^2 + v^2)} = 0
- >
-
- There is a slight error in this equation. It should read:
-
- QES = (a^2 t^4 + b^2 u^4 + c^2 v^4)
- -2 {b c u^2 v^2 + c a v^2 t^2 + a b t^2 u^2 + 2(t^2 + u^2 + v^2)s^2} = 0
- missing term--^
-
- Ross.
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