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Central Projection and Stereoscopic Diagrams on the Differential Analyser

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

A description of the construction and use of the differential analyser has already been given in the Mathematical Gazette by Professor D. R. Hartree (Vol. XXII (1938), page 342); this note arose from the consideration of means of depicting results to problems depending on three dimensions. In using the machine on what are essentially three-dimensional problems (e.g. orbits and trajectories not lying in a plane), results can usually be presented only in tabular form. As a matter of some interest in this field, consideration was given to the possibility of using the machine itself to draw a perspective diagram of such twisted curves in three dimensions. If this were found practicable it was realised that with two such diagrams, representing the space-figure as seen from two points separated by the distance between the eyes, a stereoscope could be used to reproduce a three-dimensional effect.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1950

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