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Incenter of a tetrahedron (I=(SA​A+SB​B+SC​C+SD​D)/(SA​+SB​+SC​+SD​))

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Mathematics Area of mathematics Geometry and topology Euclidean geometry Polyhedron Tetrahedron
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The center of the sphere tangent to all four faces is the positive face-area-weighted combination of the opposite vertices. If V is the volume and S the total face area, its distance from each face is 3V/S. Indeed its weight for vertex A is SA​/S and the corresponding altitude is 3V/SA​, so their product is the common distance. Positive weights place it inside the tetrahedron.

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