14.8.4 Parallelograms in space: parallelogram
See Section 13.9.4 for parallelograms in the plane.
The parallelogram command creates parallelograms in space.
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parallelogram takes three mandatory arguments and one
optional argument:
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A,B,C, three points.
- var, a variable name.
- parallelogram(A,B,C ⟨,var⟩)
returns and draws the parallelogram ABCD determined by A,B and
C.
If the option var is given, the point D will be assigned
to it.
Examples.
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Input
| A:= point(0,0,0); |
| B:= point(3,3,3); |
| C:= point(0,0,3) |
| parallelogram(A,B,C)
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Output:
- Input:
| parallelogram(A,B,C,D) |
| coordinates(D)
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Output: