Thursday, August 11, 2016

confusion

Once we are in possession of the baseline equation:

Given a value x, we can calculate a value y such that y = mx + b.
(x, y) is a point on the baseline.
The value of z at (x, y) is 0.
Using a slope Delta Z / Delta Y ...

I skipped a step.

Given the coordinates (x, y), what is the value of z where (x, y, z) is a point on the plane P?

The plane P intersects the x - y coordinate plane on a line Lb.
The formula for Lb is z = 0, y = m[Lb]x + b.

Lb and a slope m[z] define a plane (P):

I agree, this is all very confusing. I think I should work on my notation system.