Yes. We're definitely in 3 dimensions here too.
If the pipe behaves the way I'm envisioning, it's definitely an interesting mathematics/geometry problem.
Yeah, I'm going to make some type of visual. It's really rather simple, though apparently I'm not explaining it clearly. I mean, I'm sure we've all seen instances of what I'm talking about.
Picture a roller coaster on one of the tubular tracks that they have, going around a horizontal curve...
P.S. - My name is supposed to be 'FrigginEngineer'. Maybe the site has a limit on the number of characters your name can be, and they just truncated mine, lol.
Looking at it from the top; yes. However, after bending it vertically as you describe (and it's already bent horizontally), you can still just lay the pipe down flat on the ground, at which point looking at it from the top, technically there's only one radius - a horizontal radius.
As you...
I have a question, and I hope I can word it correctly.
Say I have a round pipe of length 5 feet (actually, the length is irrelevant). I want to bend it at a certain radius in the horizontal direction, and also a certain radius in the vertical direction. Let's say I bend it at 20' horizontal...