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Article #32Re: 3d programming
From: Niels Ull Jacobsen
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:47
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:47
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[...] >Considered by whom? 8th grade students? This is bullsh*t. [...] We're drifting into a flame war here. 1. This isn't appropriate to most of the groups it's crossposted to. 2. In math, a word means *exactly* what you *define* it to mean. It is thus meaningless to discuss whether a vector is a tuple or whether a point a a vector - it is if you define it to be. It seems that people are using different definitions, but, like axioms, no definitions are more *correct* than the others. I could define a vector as an object having a color and a temperature, and it wouldn't be less correct than any of the other definitions. Less useful, perhaps, but not less correct. But this is (perhaps) a topic for sci.math, not for these newsgroups. So let's end it here. -- Niels Ull Jacobsen, Dep. of CS, U of Copenhagen (null@diku.dk) Roenne Alle 3 st.th, 2860 Soeborg, Denmark, tel. +45 39 66 39 86
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!diku.dk!null From: null@diku.dk (Niels Ull Jacobsen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.pascal.mac,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.graphics.algorithms,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: 3d programming Date: 21 Feb 1996 08:47:06 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Sender: null@tyr.diku.dk Message-ID: <4gem6a$3ls@odin.diku.dk> References: <4f3od9$2jg@zeus.tcp.co.uk> <jderrick-0502961551360001@slip037.csc.cuhk.hk> <3118310E.52F@psu.edu> <4fiuh2$qrj@fulton.cs.unc.edu> <311E38D7.71BC@psu.edu> <4frlln$lp5@dfw.nkn.net> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960214142740.20349A-100000@curtis.aa.washington.e <4g2vue$3s9@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu> <4g8b5i$irm@dfw.nkn.net> <3gl21-2002960505140001@free1-slip204.tele.queensu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.diku.dk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #13