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Topic: Conway on Trilinear vs Barycentric coordinates
Replies: 13   Last Post: Feb 16, 1999 8:05 AM

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Clifford J. Nelson

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tri-linear great circles
Posted: Feb 16, 1999 8:05 AM
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Mike Horvath wrote:

> I have a website dedicated to 'trilinear' coordination. In
> architecture this system is called isometry, or isometric
perspective.
> I find this system a lot easier to use, for it eliminates the
> distortion of perspective. The difference with my(??) method is
that,
> if I could (using geometry software) I would connect the ends of
each
> of the three axes to create three independent circlular axes
revolving
> around an 'infinity sphere'.

Would it be right to use the term "three way great circle grid"? That
term is from the section 'discoveries of Synergetics' in Bucky
Fuller's
book Synergetics, explorations in the geometry of thinking, 1975.

Cliff Nelson

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