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by Horace
Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Coincidence & Touch
Replies: 16
Views: 24181

Coincidence & Touch

<t>Empiricaly when two photons or atoms come in contact (become coincident in space) they interact, interfering with each other or simply bumping into each other.<br/> <br/> This is how the sense of touch works. Most likely it happens through superposition of the two motions (at least I cannot envis...
by Horace
Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: RS2 Lecture
Replies: 23
Views: 33371

RS2 Lecture

<t>Can't wait to start downloading the videos of the lecture.<br/> <br/> I hope that the audio will be more intelligible this time - last time that frequency response was AWFUL (might have been been the mic). The frequencies that carry speech (1kHz to 6kHz) were heavily attenuated. Just do a spectra...
by Horace
Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: NURBS
Replies: 3
Views: 6684

NURBS

I wonder what would be the appearance of a plot depicting all the NURB curves satisfying a constant cross-ratio constraint ?
by Horace
Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: NURBS
Replies: 3
Views: 6684

NURBS

It should be elementary my dear Doctor, elementary... ;)

Dr Moriarty wrote:
Now if I could just figure out how to call for the "arch"...
by Horace
Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: NURBS
Replies: 3
Views: 6684

NURBS

Bruce, Some parameric curves involve a ratio of two magintudes (similar to space and time) coupled via simple functions. Look at the brief description of 3D NURBS below, which seem to couple 3D magnitude to 1D magnitude in their implementation. It seems that with some minor tweaking their definition...
by Horace
Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Constant coincidences
Replies: 23
Views: 62215

Constant coincidences

And why is this remarkable ?

...because PI is the half of the natural counterspace unit (turn) ?
by Horace
Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Reciprocal Geometry
Replies: 25
Views: 37424

Reciprocal Geometry

<r>Attached is an intersting paper on Projective Geometry with Clifford Algebra.<br/> <br/> You can view it with the following free viewer.<br/> <URL url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114927"><LINK_TEXT text="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=114927">http://sou...
by Horace
Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Electricity
Replies: 23
Views: 35764

Electricity

<t>Neat explanation!<br/> <br/> They stipped the charge by colliding electrons and positrons head on at 57.77Ge.<br/> <br/> Uncharged electrons should not repel anymore.<br/> <br/> Although I wonder how can they detect uncharged electrons in vacuum, and how can the uncharged electron survive outside...
by Horace
Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Can a ratio of 1:1 exist?
Replies: 7
Views: 13905

Can a ratio of 1:1 exist?

<t>Bruce,<br/> <br/> The problem with OOP is that the virtual function tables are fixed at compilation time, and the type checking is done by the compilator according to static function/procedure definitions. This means that you cannot change the class definitions at runtime, because by that time th...