Talk:Cartesian coordinate system

I think this page doesn't talk about the third dimension (i.e. 'z') nearly enough. Just because co-ordinates are cartesian, doesn't mean they are 2-dimensional. 3-dimensional co-ordinates are usually expressed as cartesian co-ordinates as well, and it seems that this has been included into this article merely as an afterthought.

You are correct in that the 3d aspect of CCS is an afterthought. I spent a _long_ time trying to add information that wasn't so "common". In short, I ran out of time. The problem is when you add more information on this you are moving away from originator of the idea; too, you would probably have to discuss the properties in a 3d system that are different in a 2d system. For instance, slope in a 3d system makes little sense. I thought it would be an easy article, but actually I need to upload some pictures, that's the only really clear way to explain it (and that ASCII picture is atrocious). I add more later; thanks for the input. Feel free to add :)