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7 Aug 2024 21:26:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mirroring a pigment?  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 26 May 2001 13:50:45
Message: <3B0FEE31.4738E7E2@erols.com>
ingo wrote:
> 
>  You know, there are some of these days on the net, I enjoy more than
> average, they make me smile in a certain way. It happens sometimes on
> the USENET but also on this, relative small, server. For example, a
> thread with a peculiar problem is going on a few days;
>     1. A day, or two, after you think, everything is said and
> explained, Chis Colefax suddenly comes 'crawling from under his
> stone'. He gives a simple yet elegant solution to the problem, in a
> way that makes all of us hurry, to catch our lower jaw before it hits
> the ground.
> Or ...
>     2. the problem discussed is about some esoteric transformation.
> After a possible solution or two published, John VanSickle appears
> with 4-5 lines of nifty code, containing the word 'matrix'. And then
> the 'MatrixMan' has the guts to say:
> > This is untested, but I'm confident it works.
> ... and it does, not just for this case but for all related.

One of my Throughly Useful Macros can also do mirroring:

Stretch(Vector,-1)

Silly, not to think of it.

Regards,
John
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