Re: Altitude of a point in a triangle

Tom Plunket wrote:

> Huh, I don't see how it accomplishes that.  It seems to me that you're
> solving for a point that is along the line defined by p + sn where s is
> a scalar scale value, and appears to completely disregard the "vertical"
> vector which is what you're actually trying to compute.

No, the solution I specified solves for the intersection between a line 
parallel to the y axis which contains the point and the plane of the 
triangle.  Which is exactly the interpolated point on the triangle.

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