Tom Plunket wrote:
> Erik Max Francis wrote:
>
>>> And again, sorry if I'm being unclear. I normally try to be pretty
good
>>> about this stuff, but I guess I'm very tired this week, as I've caught
>>> myself asking a couple of questions that just turned out to be silly
>>> bugs on my part. I'll be more careful, going forward.
>> The vector solution for this, by the way, would be to write out the
>> vector equation of the plane:
>>
>> {x: (x - p) dot n = 0},
>
> If you want to determine the distance from a point to a triangle along a
> given vector, this is most certainly not the correct solution. Miss
> Elaine was looking for where the Y-down vector intersected the triangle,
> regardless of the triangle's normal.
I don't think you read my solution all the way through. That is
precisely what it accomplished.
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