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How to obtain the coordinates of the intersection line of two surfaces?


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First, I have tried MaxCellMeasure->0.5, MaxCellMeasure->{"Length"->0.5} and MaxCellMeasure->{"Area"->0.5}, and change the number 0.5. It seems that the numbers of point doesn't change.


Secondly, it's very fast to run your code, but it takes about minutes to run my code with my f[x,y,z], g[x,y,z]. And this is my code:


Clear[f,g];
f[x_,y_,z_,t_]:=x^2+y^2+(z-1)^2-t^2/4;
g[x_,y_,z_]:=Piecewise[{{(x-1/2)^2+y^2+z^2-1/16,(x-1/2)^2+y^2-1/16<=0&&z>=0}},z];
reg=DiscretizeRegion[ImplicitRegion[{f[x,y,z,2]==0, g[x, y, z] == 0}, {x, y, z}]];
MeshCoordinates[reg]

Is it because I used Piecewise in g function that it needs more time to run the code?


Third, what I want to do next is below. In fact, I want to plot the projection of the intersection line on xy plane. And this is point projection, as shown below



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Connect (0,0,1) and one point on the intersection line, extend it to intersect with xy plane. The yellow pint is want I am looking for. Repeat this for all points on the intersection line, then I can get a closed curve on xy plane. And I need to plot the curve in a 2-dimensional figure, instead of three-dimensional figure here.(I don't want to use Plot3D+Viewpoint to show a 2d curve in 3d coordinate, because the exported pdf file will be large.) I can calculate the yellow points' coordinate (x',y') based on (x,y,z) of red points on the intersection line. x'=x/(1-z),y'=y(1-z). But how to achieve this?


Or maybe I should use another way: use ParametricPlot


ParametricPlot[{x/(1-z),y/(1-z)},{x,y,z}] and x,y,z satisfy f[x,y,z]==g[x,y,z]


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