Re: [opendx-users] Re: hints symmetrical calculations

2000-06-22 Thread Thomas A. Gardiner
Nancy, On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, nancy collins wrote: sorry if i've been missing the point. Absolutely no need to apologize; you're doing ME the favor! :-) can you explain to me if this is the approximation you are talking about? take N identical 2D sheets of quads, and stack them into a 3D

Re: [opendx-users] Re: hints symmetrical calculations

2000-06-22 Thread Chris Pelkie
A picture is really worth a thousand words! Tom Speaking of that, does anyone know if this mailserver would block attachments? A picture (like a jpg or something) probably would go a long way right about now. I think I know what you described, but I think that's exactly what Nancy described to

Re: [opendx-users] Re: hints symmetrical calculations

2000-06-22 Thread Thomas A. Gardiner
Yes! Nancy, great! Now I think I can describe my question simply. Take the image generate by the script below... I'm looking at it right now. See all of the connections and points which are necessary to describe the circles? What I want to know is if the connections, i.e. the linear paths

[opendx-users] Re: hints symmetrical calculations

2000-06-21 Thread Ned Piburn
This discussion is becoming painful. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Nancy is talking about a transform of coordinates that would, for example, take a 2D rectangle and wrap it around a cylinder (form the outside surface of a coffee can perhaps). This is a surface to surface