Barycentric coordinate system
Coordenadas baricéntricas
- Date
- 1827 · confidence high
- Place
- Leipzig, Germany
- Credited to
- August Ferdinand Möbius
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
A coordinate system that locates a point relative to the vertices of a simplex (triangle, tetrahedron...) using weighted masses whose center of gravity is that point.
Introduced by Möbius in his work 'Der barycentrische Calcül' (1827).
What it led to
- Tools for affine and projective geometry
- Use in computer graphics to interpolate across triangles
Built on
- Cartesian coordinates