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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: 3d programming
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 23:57:52 GMT
- Organization: City Zen FM
- Message-ID: <824428672snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <824147592snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>
- chris@chrism.demon.co.uk "Chris Marriott" writes:
-
- > In article <311E38D7.71BC@psu.edu> chc104@psu.edu "Christopher H. Clark" writes:>
- > >Jonathan Cohen wrote:
- > >>
- > >> Sorry to quibble, but...
- > >>
- > >> A VECTOR IS NOT A POINT!!!!
- > >>
- > >> Now back to our regular program.
- > >
- > >Points are vectors.
- >
- > No they aren't. A vector has a DIRECTION in space, not merely a POSITION.
- > It requires TWO points to define it.
- >
-
- Now that _is_ wrong.
-
- A vector is just a way of describing a length with a certain direction.
-
- Points may be referenced via POSITION VECTORS, and they are absolute within
- your reference, being a Vector from point (0,0,0...)
-
- You can define a vector using two points, but that vector can be moved anywhere
- within your space and remain THE SAME VECTOR.
-
- Thus two points can define a vector, but they are not the only two points to
- do so.
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