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- Subject: Re: 3d programming
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:27:15 GMT
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- schumaker@tigger.jvnc.net (schumaker) wrote:
- >>> > > >Actually, you only need 2 points to define a plane: a point on the
- >plane and
- >>> > > >a normal vector.
- >>> > >
- >>> > > Sorry to quibble, but...
- >>> > >
- >>> > > A VECTOR IS NOT A POINT!!!!
- >>> > >
- >>> > > Now back to our regular program.
- >>> >
- >>> > Points are vectors.
- >>> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>>
- >>> Sorry, but I must take offense here. A point in Cartesian space has three
- >>> aspects [X,Y,Z]. A vector requires a direction, and depending on how
- >sticky you
- >>> are, probably a length. This implies 6 independent aspects. Result; A
- >plane
- >>> requires 3 points. Always.
- >>
- >>You're wrong. A vector is any quantity with any given number of dimensions.
- >The
- >>number 5 is a vector, called a scalar. The vector [x,y,z] can refer to a
- >position
- >>vector (point) or direction vector.
- >>
- >>I suggest you take some math courses before you try to explain such basic
- >concepts.
-
- >your wrong a vector and a scalar are completely different. 5 is not a vector
- >called a scalar it is a scalar. Look up in any physics book and a scalar is
- >defined as any given value. 5,10,3.116, any # is a scalar but a vector is
- >number WITH direction ie 5 at 13degress is a vector.
-
- Had my physics book out to answer another of the posts to this threed. . . You
- are semi-wrong about the definition of "scalar" it is:
-
- "Physics: Principles and Problems" (My Adv. Physics book):
- SCALAR: Quantity, like distance, that has only a magnitude, or size.
-
- but you are correct that a vector and a scalar are different. Just not
- completely different. Your definition of vector is correct. In your definition
- of vector the 5 is a scalar. Which means that you know that 5 is a scalar and
- you know that 5 is not a vector.
-
- Well you know what a scalar is by your use in the vector example and yet in your
- definition of scalar you make it ANY given number. I think you typed before you
- thought. Here is what you should have said: "a scalar is defined as any given
- value that represents a magnitude".
-
- Not arguing, just correcting.
-
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