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Notes on the method of Orthogonal Projection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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This paper is designed to call attention to certain extensions of this method, which do not seem to be generally recognised. Most writers consider the ellipse alone as amenable to orthogonal projection, whereas all the conic sections are so.

With the hyperbola we may use this method in three ways—

(1) By projecting a given diameter in the figure to be a transverse axis of the projected figure, when the result will follow by symmetry.

(2) By projecting the hyperbola into a rectangular one.

(3) By an imaginary orthogonal projection from the circle.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1884