Ian Piumarta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

>  I hate the special case handling of text layout --  
> everything should be made of relationships between and constraints  
> acting on boxes and springs, like in TeX (and maybe we should even be  
> using Knuth's algorithms directly).

Possibly of interest: 
http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/11/22/tex-finally-made-functional/

> I'd love someone who is much better than me at math to think  
> seriously about how geometric algebra might be exploited in (or even  
> subsume) all the transform stuff in there.

Its nice to see somone mention geometric algebra  :).

I had coded some GA stuff for squeak a while ago, for use with Jasmine Croquet 
(I think to make the
transforms for 3D head-tracking + stereo projection friendlier).  But the code 
is probably fairly crufty :).

I'd be interested in looking at doing a GA implementation once things get a bit 
more mature (and there
is a tutorial where I don't have to look at filthy language!).

cheers,
Daniel Faken


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