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Posted by Necromancer on Mon Oct 22nd at 4:14am 2012

I have a geometry methods test tomorrow and I have to be able to construct and prove some of the different points of concurrency for triangles, and I can see how the circumcenter, incenter, and centroid could have real-life application, but does anyone know of any real-life application for the orthocenter?

Refresher: Orthocenter is the point of concurrency for where the three altitudes intersect. Thanks!



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Posted by Crono on Mon Oct 22nd at 4:59am 2012

Surveillance.

If you know three points or paths that form a triangle you can figure out an area in the middle (orthocenter) where you will have optimal viewing of all areas. How do they know where to put CCTV cameras? For example.

Finding the orthocenter of various points is also the main mathematics behind triangulation, which is pretty important.


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Posted by Necromancer on Mon Oct 22nd at 5:09am 2012

Thanks! That helps a lot.



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Posted by Necromancer on Mon Oct 22nd at 5:13am 2012

I'm glad I decided to post this question on the Snarkpit, because on other websites people don't know anything! I actually found websites that said that the orthocenter has no real purpose. Unbelievable! Well, thank you for your answer!



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Oct 28th at 2:05am 2012

LOL
So much for me thinking I could help with a mapping issue. smiley



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