have two line segment in the space, how to construct a surface with two line segment as the boundary?
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You may do this parametrically.
Supose your two segments described by:
where the {} indicates vector quantities, {a},{b} constants.
Then, for any t you have two points in space, one in each segment.
The straight line between them can be described by:
We are almost there. Now we write the function describing the surface, replacing s1 and s2 by their values:
HTH!
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