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two straight lines projection on a sphere

-MFra-
21-Topaz II

two straight lines projection on a sphere

Hello to all the community experts,
I would like to carry out the stereographic projection on the sphere of the two parallel straight lines, fr1 and fr2, both lying on the plane z = 0. So I should see the segment P0P1 connecting the pole with a point on the straight line fr1 and the segment P0P2 connecting the pole with the straight line fr2 whose projections on the sphere are two circles passing through the pole. I've been trying for a few hours but without success. Anyone here, is able to do this?
Thank you in advance.
Attached is the file for one projection.

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Werner_E
25-Diamond I
(To:-MFra-)

Simply do with the second line the same as with the first one and add it and its projection to the plot:

Werner_E_1-1624942247677.png

 

 

P.S.: Maybe you are not aware of an old bug in the 3D plot of Mathcad. If you add a scatter plot, you may get an error (usually). Simply change the type to vector plot and then back to scatter plot to make it work.

 

BTW, to draw a line, 2 points are all you need. Not necessary to create 6000 points. And the circles look good enough for me with just 200 points, so I changed k0 accordingly. Furthermore the range for t has nothing to do with pi so I changed the range to run from -10 to +10 for a nearly full circle. For a really full circle you may change t for tan(t) in the parametrization of the straight line and let t run from -pi/2 to pi/2 as shown for the second line:

Werner_E_2-1624942300572.png

 

MC15 sheet attached

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ttokoro
20-Turquoise
(To:-MFra-)

Only make second line functions to plot.

 

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ttokoro
20-Turquoise
(To:ttokoro)

Two lines with perpendicular. Three lines to make triangle inside and outside.

 

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-MFra-
21-Topaz II
(To:ttokoro)

Note that the pole represents the line to infinity.

Werner_E
25-Diamond I
(To:-MFra-)

Simply do with the second line the same as with the first one and add it and its projection to the plot:

Werner_E_1-1624942247677.png

 

 

P.S.: Maybe you are not aware of an old bug in the 3D plot of Mathcad. If you add a scatter plot, you may get an error (usually). Simply change the type to vector plot and then back to scatter plot to make it work.

 

BTW, to draw a line, 2 points are all you need. Not necessary to create 6000 points. And the circles look good enough for me with just 200 points, so I changed k0 accordingly. Furthermore the range for t has nothing to do with pi so I changed the range to run from -10 to +10 for a nearly full circle. For a really full circle you may change t for tan(t) in the parametrization of the straight line and let t run from -pi/2 to pi/2 as shown for the second line:

Werner_E_2-1624942300572.png

 

MC15 sheet attached

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