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6 Aug 2024 08:16:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: intersection points.....  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 16 Apr 2002 16:11:36
Message: <3CBC8578.548F0ED0@gmx.de>
Jan Walzer wrote:
> 
> maybe it's a chance, if you insect 3 planes, and then use the
> min/max_extend-functions... it could be, that one of the ext-
> ends gives you the point, you're looking for ...
> 

Won't work, min/max_extend only gives the extents of the bounding box, if
you don't bound the intersection manually this won't even give a usable
result.

But of course it should not very difficult to calculate the intersection
of the planes with some basic math.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Plane-PlaneIntersection.html


Christoph

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