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can be defined at the point P on the surface where the normal vector contains Q.The normal distance of a point Q to a curve or to a surface is the Euclidean distance between Q and its foot P.

Normal to space curves

The normal direction to a space curve is:
:where is the radius of curvature (reciprocal curvature); is the tangent vector,

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