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Article #4811Re: graphical humping terminology
From: Vaughan R. Pratt
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:39
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:39
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In article <1992Nov11.063332.22820@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes: >>In article <ETHANB.92Nov9155340@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu> >>ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford) writes: >>>The simple explaination of why yellow monochromatic light looks the >>>same as equal combinations of green and red light is that the color > >(Picturesque solutions deleted.) I agree with your annoyance >completely. Gaussians are very useful but pretending that every >molehill or mountain is a Gaussian can lead to lots of errors - so it's >good that mathematicians have a technical term for the kind of function >you are referring to. It's called a "bump function", or "bump". Vision physiologists call it a "peak function" or "peak". -- Vaughan Pratt
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Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.math Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Sunburn.Stanford.EDU!pratt From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) Subject: Re: graphical humping terminology Message-ID: <1992Nov12.033957.7029@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. References: <ETHANB.92Nov9155340@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu> <1992Nov10.190554.11097@sfu.ca> <1992Nov11.063332.22820@galois.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:39:57 GMT Lines: 15