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  Re: ExplainationPlease...??  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 24 Jan 2002 16:52:09
Message: <3C508140.F474238B@hotmail.com>
Mike Williams wrote:
> 
> Wasn't it Bill DeWitt who wrote:
> >
> >"Hugo" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote :
> >>
> >> Could you please tell about vector cross & dot products too, then?  :o)
> >
> >    I finally got what dot products were about a year ago. I don't know how
> >ignorant of them you are, but I had no clue. Here's what I finally figured
> >out.
> >
> >    If you have a vector #declare v = <1,2,3>;
> >    Then v.x = 1, v.y = 2, v.z = 3.
> 
> I guess that's a joke, but just in case your serious, the POV dot
> operator (which is what you have there) is a completely different thing
> from the vector dot product (which you can calculate with the "vdot()"
> vector function).

Well, it's not a completely different thing...  ;)

v.x does give exactly the same result as vdot(v, x) does


Tor Olav


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