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  Re: ExplainationPlease...??  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 24 Jan 2002 13:46:19
Message: <r+A9ABAaXFU8EweF@econym.demon.co.uk>
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).

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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