Thread: Taxicab Geometry
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Unread 14-05-2004, 14:17
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Re: Taxicab Geometry
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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
Ok, Taxicab Geometry is deceptively simple. It's exactly like Euclidean, except distance is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the diferences pf the corrdinates.
OR: dT = |AX - BX| + |AY - BY| + |AZ - BZ| + ...

And you define everyting based on locuses and distance. Circle is easy. A segment = {P | dT(P, A) + dT(P, B) = dT(A, B)}

Confused yet?
I'm so confued. What's the point of this anyway? (both of the post and of the geomety...)
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