Question

this is driving me crazy. Is there anyway to plot these two parametric lines? on free software?

Answer 1

(5+2,-3-2s,5)
(1+6t,-1,4+2t)

Answer 2

or even something that will solve for the intersection point. Yes I know how to do it by hand. What I want is to see how to do it on the computer!

Answer 3

fooplot.com is my favorite

Answer 4

will it do 3d parametric plots?

Answer 5

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=parametric+1%2B6t%2C-1%2C4%2B2t

Don't know about intersection though.

Answer 6

that's not it either. I need both lines!

Answer 7

Well, you will need them both in t for a start.....

Answer 8

And the lines may be skew...

Answer 9

if you have a mac, you can use grapher

Answer 10

(5+2,-3-2s,5)

5+2?

Answer 11

tried using grapher already

Answer 12

http://cs.jsu.edu/~leathrum/Mathlets/parapath.html

Answer 13

math GV function plotting software is supposed to be free