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Re: Tangent between two circles in 3D space?
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Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:23:59 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin Clague writes:
Anyone know how to find out the tangent between two cicles in 3D space?

Kevin

What have you tried so far?

And which tangent? Think about it, there's an infinite number of solutions.
Even on a plane there are multiple solutions.

Recommendation: start with the book _Computational Geometry in C_ by Joseph
O'Rourke.

-Erik



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Anyone know how to find out the tangent between two cicles in 3D space? Kevin (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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