Intersection of a Convex Polyhedron and a Plane

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This Demonstration shows that the intersection of an arbitrary convex polyhedron by an arbitrary plane is a convex polygon.
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Contributed by: Frederick Wu (October 2011)
Based on a program by: Wouter L. J. Meeussen and Eric W. Weisstein
With corrections by: Max W. Schmidt
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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[1] F. Wu, et. al., "Design and Algorithm for Polyhedron Metro Frame of Lithographic Machine," China Mechanical Engineering, 24(9), 2013, pp.1164–1168 DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1004-132X .2013.09.007
[2] M. de Berg, O. Cheong, M. van Kreveld, and M. Overmars, Computational Geometry Algorithms and Applications, 3rd ed., Berlin: Springer, 2008 pp. 243–258.
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Published: October 13 2011