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- Subject: Re: 3d programming
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:23:15 +0000
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- John J. Karcher wrote:
- [snip]
- > >Points are vectors.
-
- Possibly they are as far as implementaion goes, but not conceptualy
- true. The 'pure' definition of a point is that is has absolute position
- (x,y & z), whilst a vector has magnitude and direction but no absolute
- position
-
- > But the reverse is not true.
-
- Quite
-
- > - John J. Karcher
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