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I would need to know a good site about "elementary geometry",
(some plane trigonometry, too !?!).
I am doing a personal project, mainly done with the
help of CSG... with POV, and my geometric
knowledges are pretty poor. ( things like the shorter distance
between a given point and a line; the angle of a line when you
only know the starting and finishing points of that same line... etc..)
This curiosity came to me after I realised a nice logo
with the only help of CSG keywords, into POV, and then
I wanted to go farter with this thecnique.... I know that a good
Cad package give all these geometrical information, and pretty
quickly, but I would like to get more "autonomy"!
So, is there, on the Web, some good and easy to understand
stuff about geometry ??! (or a kind of very "small" freeware, which
would calculate it for me??)
Alex, Thank
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Alex Pilot wrote:
> So, is there, on the Web, some good and easy to understand
> stuff about geometry ??! (or a kind of very "small" freeware, which
> would calculate it for me??)
This should help you get started -
http://www.povray.org/links/3D_Resources/Math_and_Geometry_Resources_and_Information/
--
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/
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In article <3A5D11FF.E83748A0@sympatico.ca>, flo### [at] sympatico ca
wrote:
> ( things like the shorter distance between a given point and a line;
> the angle of a line when you only know the starting and finishing
> points of that same line... etc..)
http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/pbourke/
--
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/
<><
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Everything you never wanted to know about math...
...no longer exists at mathworld.wolfram.com. I wasn't too happy either.
Sorry to give you the rant, but I'm in a ranting mood. I'm always in a
ranting mood. History is written by the victors. The system is ignorant.
Rantingly,
David
To give some real advice though when I want something of this nature I try
google, it usually gives pretty good results. I don't have any links off
hand.
--
David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> ICQ 55354965
My raytracing gallery: http://davidf.faricy.net/
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David Fontaine wrote:
> Everything you never wanted to know about math...
>
> ...no longer exists at mathworld.wolfram.com. I wasn't too happy either.
>
> Sorry to give you the rant, but I'm in a ranting mood. I'm always in a
> ranting mood. History is written by the victors. The system is ignorant.
>
> Rantingly,
> David
>
> To give some real advice though when I want something of this nature I try
> google, it usually gives pretty good results. I don't have any links off
> hand.
>
> --
> David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> ICQ 55354965
> My raytracing gallery: http://davidf.faricy.net/
Death to CRC. Somehow the judge thinks that the harm to the general public
from taking the site down would be minimal. If I ever want to publish
anything in a book I am going to make sure I have a really good lawyer.
Software patents also give me a murderous rage. See this article
http://www.around.com/patent.html it's by the author of Chaos, and is very
good.
Well about the math, uh mathworld was the site to get things, and now as
things are you can try to figure things out from one of the sites from a
search. Your best bet is probably a visit to a college library. While you
are there you could try talking to a professor. Most of their students are
only taking math because they have to, they like talking to people who
actually are driven to learn.
Dan Johnson
PS don't you dare buy a CRC book.
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Dan Johnson wrote:
> Software patents also give me a murderous rage. See this article
> http://www.around.com/patent.html it's by the author of Chaos, and is very
> good.
It gets taken way too far like with Amazon. But I still think software needs
some degree of protection, or Microsoft will reverse engineer it all and put you
out of business.
--
David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> ICQ 55354965
My raytracing gallery: http://davidf.faricy.net/
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David Fontaine wrote:
> Dan Johnson wrote:
>
>
>> Software patents also give me a murderous rage. See this article
>> http://www.around.com/patent.html it's by the author of Chaos, and is very
>> good.
>
>
> It gets taken way too far like with Amazon. But I still think software needs
> some degree of protection, or Microsoft will reverse engineer it all and put you
> out of business.
>
All protection that is needed is the GPL.
Microsoft doesn't even need to reverse engineer it, all they have todo
is to make their software GPL'ed too...
Remco
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On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:37:11 +0100, Remco Poelstra wrote:
>All protection that is needed is the GPL.
>Microsoft doesn't even need to reverse engineer it, all they have todo
>is to make their software GPL'ed too...
For a very paranoid take on Microsoft and Open Source (yeah, I know, it's
not Microsoft. Sure.) go see the movie "Antitrust" when it opens in your
country. I highly recommend it.
--
Ron Parker http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions. Mine. Not anyone else's.
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