The point where the segments that generate an angle are joined and the point where three or more planes merge is called a vertex.
The concept of vertex derives from the Latin word vertex . From the perspective of geometry , the vertex is the name given to the point that marks the union between the segments that give rise to an angle or where a minimum of three planes merge. The apex of a cone or pyramid is also known as the vertex, as is the maximum or minimum point of a curved line.
In graph theory , each vertex is considered the fundamental unit that makes up graphs . Undirected graphs are composed of vertices and edges (i.e., unordered pairs of vertices), while directed graphs span vertices and arcs (ordered pairs of vertices).
Vertex in cartography, topography and geodesy
The concept is also used in cartography and topography to name the point on a surface whose altitude is greater than that of all the other points that are adjacent to it. In this sense, the term is synonymous with summit or summit and refers, for example, to the highest part of a mountain.
The so-called geodesic vertex , for its part, identifies a signal that is used to indicate a specific location contemplated within the framework of a set of triangles (constituted, in turn, by other vertices of a geodesic nature).
In topography, vertex is synonymous with summit.
A publisher and audiovisual distributor
In the same way, we cannot ignore that Vértice was the name of a Spanish publisher that specialized in the production of comics and specifically in the translation of those that came from the mythical Marvel. Until the early 1980s, this company operated, allowing young Spaniards, and also adults, to enjoy the adventures of Spiderman, by Stan Lee, or Colonel Fury, by Jim Steranko.
It should also be highlighted that within the world of entertainment there is an audiovisual distributor called Vértice Cine. It was the result of the merger of Notro Films and Manga Films.
Vertex in rock
And all this without forgetting that in the same way the term we are analyzing is the name of two musical groups. One of them, currently still in force, is framed within the rock genre and its members come from the Spanish city of Valladolid.
The second group mentioned is now extinct and was very important within the Catalan musical world back in the decades of the 60s and 70s. Blues was the field in which it especially moved, although it also made its forays into more rock. symphonic. Its members only managed to record two songs ("You're not real" and "Take me Away") in a mini album called "Diabolo" and which was made in 1970 at the famous GMA studios.
The notion in anatomy
For anatomy , finally, the vertex is determined by the highest area of the head of vertebrate beings and arthropods.
In the case of humans, the cranial vertex is composed of the frontal bone, the parietal bones and the occipital bone, joined together by the coronary suture, the sagittal suture and the lambdoid suture.