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From: Markus Becker
Subject: Re: what is a spline
Date: 19 Feb 2002 06:55:45
Message: <3C723D60.FD92DCDE@aicoss.de>
Grey Knight wrote:
> 
> Well, don't forget splines were originally geometric entities; used to
> smoothly interpolate between sets of points. We've extended it to other
> uses, but...

Well, don't forget that splines originally were made of
wood, yes, really!

Markus


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From: Grey Knight
Subject: Re: what is a spline
Date: 19 Feb 2002 07:28:06
Message: <3C7244CC.D316211D@namtar.qub.ac.uk>
Markus Becker wrote:
> Grey Knight wrote:
> > Well, don't forget splines were originally geometric entities; used to
> > smoothly interpolate between sets of points. We've extended it to other
> > uses, but...
> Well, don't forget that splines originally were made of
> wood, yes, really!

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Well *technically* that was a different
thing under the same name, but I think there's more than enough
technicality here already...

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