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From: vanhove@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Patrick Van Hove)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Re:Simple geometric formulae.
Message-ID: <876@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 88 01:54:31 GMT
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In-reply-to: brownh@unioncs.UUCP's message of 20 Jan 88 19:33:33 GMT




In article <554@acornrc.UUCP> you write:
>I'm looking for some simple geometric formulae such as
>	distance from a point to a line segment
>	distance from a point to a bezier
>	distance from a point to an ellipse
>	how to determine whether a point is inside an ellipse
>	how to determine whether a point is inside a polygon
>	etc.

2 books that you may consider, 

%A M.E. Mortenson
%T Geometric Modeling
%I J. Wiley 
%C New York
%D 1985

%A I.D. Faux
%A M.J. Pratt
%T Computational Geometry for Design and Manufacture
%I Ellis Horwood
%C Chichester
%D 1979

Also, any text on computer graphics or analytic geometry should be useful.

	Patrick Van Hove