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A plane is a two dimensional vector space.
A plane has a dimension of two because two coordinates are needed to specify a point on it.
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Containing the origin
- Two-dimensional: All points in the plane: Span {[1, 2], [3, 4]}
- Span of two 3-vectors {[1, 0, 1.65], [0, 1, 1]} is a plane in three dimensions.
# A more familiar way to specify a plane
{(x, y, z) : ax + by + cz = 0}
# Using dot-product, the above equation becomes a set of vectors
# satisfying a linear equation with right-hand side zero
{[x, y, z] : [a, b, c] * [x, y, z] = 0}
Plane Intersection
The intersection of the two following plane:
- {[x, y, z] : [4,-1, 1] · [x, y, z] = 0}
- {[x, y, z] : [0, 1, 1] · [x, y, z] = 0}
is
- {[x, y, z] : [4,-1, 1] · [x, y, z] = 0, [0, 1, 1] · [x, y, z] = 0}
Translation
The translation of a plane translate it in a way that it doesn't contain the origin.
You can express such plane as
- a vector addition
- an affine hull
- a solution set of an equation
Vector Addition
Vector addition is used to defined a set of points forming an plane that not necessarily go through the origin.
You translate the plane by adding a vector c [0.5, 1] to every point in the plane.
abbreviated: <math>c + nu</math>
The result is a plane through c instead of through origin.
Affine hull
Equation
The solution set of an linear equation:
- ax + by + cz = d
- In vector terms:{[x, y, z] : [a, b, c] · [x, y, z] = d}