Earl

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Is there a way to directly code a complex conjugate such as z with overbar without using the verbose conjugate(z)?

This worksheet contains an unnamed theorem on page 202 of David Wells's book The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry.

Somehow I have uploaded both its contents and (a) link(s) to it.

What Maple code can animate and display, in turn, each of the portrayed pursuit paths?

Pursuit_problem.mw

 

Consider a target point T which moves at constant speed along a straight line, and a moving point P which at all times moves directly towards T. If P starts anywhere on the outermost ellipse, and T starts from a focus of the outer ellipse, then P always captures T at the same point, the centre of the ellipse.

 

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The concentric ellipses, whose shape depends on the relative velocities of T and P, are isochrones, and the curves of pursuit are their isoclinal trajectories

 

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1) the two cylinders are centered on the x and z axis respectively

2) any two intersecting cylinders

As an example, the second display in the web site below shows the 42 possible triangulations of a cyclic heptagon polygon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon_triangulation

Is there any simple way that the colored shape created in the xy plane by the uploaded code can be projected in the z direction onto the surface of the unit sphere centred at the origin?

Projection.mw

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