On 8/20/2011 3:55 AM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 19/08/2011 11:23 PM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
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>> No wonder I can't even figure out some "basic" stuff
>> I need for some 3D math.
>
> What part of
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> | U x V | = |U| * |V| * cos a
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> do you *not* understand? :-P
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>
>
> Only teasing. ;-)
>
Would be a lot simpler if the damn stuff you have to use it in 
"understood" all that shit, natively. The problem I always run into is 
that you can find a perfectly comprehensible form of something some 
place, but it is only applicable is you a) do it by hand, or b) know how 
to derive some completely bloody different set of equations, that the 
damn computer will understand. Its like knowing, sort of, how to speak 
some obscure Chinese dialect, but then finding out that you need to 
*write* the information down in German, which for which the only work 
you know is the one applying to yourself, Dummkopf.

Well, not exactly the same case, but if you don't have all the other 
stuff in between the two concepts, understanding what the math is doing 
in the "human" version won't get you any closer to understanding how the 
hell the computer needs to deal with it.

The original post in this, describing deriving the two equations needed 
for Mandelbrot, from the original non-computer usable one, is a perfect 
example. My reaction is, "Show the math, step by step, because WTF?" lol

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