"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:


> > ... the resulting ternary plot would have only a tiny circular area
> > somewhere within the triangle, representing 'a decent puffy cloud'. All
> > other combinations of the 3 variables would indeed produce *something*--but
> > it wouldn't really look like a sky cloud.
>
> Yes, but think about it this way - sometimes information on what NOT to do is
> just as valuable as what to do.
> "I want to experiment with media.  Oh, look, Kenneth made a pretty graph of
> different combinations ---- oh, all the combinations outside of that one little
> region all suck.   I won't bother wasting my time experimenting with those...."
>
Good point. I remember my very first try at making a cloud; I spent HOURS
fiddling with the various parameters (and every experiment led to another even
more-interesting experiment!) I think it was several days later that I finally
settled on what I thought were the best(??) parameters for a decent 'cloud'. But
every time I make one now, I always change *something*, to tweak it a little
better (or to re-learn something that I've forgotten!)

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