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Flag

A collection of Faces of an $n$-D Polytope or Simplicial Complex, one of each Dimension 0, 1, ..., $n-1$, which all have a common nonempty Intersection. In normal 3-D, the flag consists of a half-plane, its bounding Ray, and the Ray's endpoint.




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1999-05-26