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Prismatic surface
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In solid geometry, a prismatic surface is a polyhedral surface generated by all the lines that are parallel to a given line and that intersect a polygonal chain in a plane that is not parallel to the given line.[1] The polygonal chain is the directrix of the surface; the parallel lines are its generators (or elements). If the directrix is a convex polygon, then the surface is a closed prismatic surface. The part of a closed prismatic surface between two parallel copies of the directrix is a prism.[2]
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