Intersecting cylinders.

[Guv]

A friend of mine asked if I knew anything about the following. I have never encountered this object. Does anybody here have a clue or know of a pertinent URL?

Imagine three cylinders (same diameter) which intersect at right angles to each other. If you cannot visualize that, think of the XYZ Axes of a Cartesian coordinate system. Then imagine each axis as the center of a long cylinder.

Any idea of what the intersection looks like? Does anybody know a site which might have a graphic like this?

I am also posting this on the Games & Graphics forum.

[noble]

imagine a pair of boxer shorts when you sit down,

put your left leg and right leg at 90° angles (if possible teehee)

and if what you say is criteria for this, your thighs would have to
be as wide as your waist !!!


anyways, envision this pair of shorts on an invisible man

[thinktank2]

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/pbourke/geometry/planelev/



http://www.biwako.ne.jp/~hidekazu/ma.../cylindere.htm

[DerFarm]

having seen the pictures put up by ThinkTank, looks kinda like a bishop's beanie with a bottom

[[Digital-X-Treme]]

Guv, try Mathworld. I searched the site for "3 cylinder" and came up with this: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SteinmetzSolid.html

Hope this helps.

[thinktank2]

Originally posted by DerFarm
having seen the pictures put up by ThinkTank, looks kinda like a bishop's beanie with a bottom

no ...focus... on the structure formed inside. This is the thing he is interested in.

[Starman]

I saw this in a woodworking magazine once Guv, starting with the same question as your's, the guy cylindrically turned a piece of wood on a lathe, re-mounting it onto the three axes (x,y,z) and turning a cylinder each time. He was pleased with the resulting shape (like ThinkTank's pic) and created a series of table-lamps using it.