Timeline for Minimum distance between two arbitrary circles in space?
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| Apr 30, 2015 at 16:09 | history | edited | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 12, 2012 at 21:14 | answer | added | Beni Bogosel | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 20:58 | answer | added | Joseph O'Rourke | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 19:32 | answer | added | Robert Israel | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 19:19 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | I have a similar two circle problem related to packing. I am close to giving up and asking here if someone will help me with the analytic geometry involved. Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2012.04.12 | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 19:12 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | The only other idea I have is that the line joining the two closest points (assuming no intersections) should be proved to be perpendicular to tangent lines to each circle in their respective planes. Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2012.04.12 | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 19:08 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | For circles that are far apart, draw a line segment between their centers and project this segment onto each circle. This should work whenever the line segment is larger than the sum of the two radii. For circles that are closer, it does get more complicated. Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2012.04.12 | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 18:55 | history | asked | zazakely | CC BY-SA 3.0 |