On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 10:54:51PM +0000, Andy Farnell wrote: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:50:04 -0500 (EST) > Mathieu Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Functions with constant total energy are a convex space. This is like a > > linear space except it changes one rule: in a vector space, if a,b are > > scalars and x,y are vectors, then ax+by is a vector. In a convex space, > > there's the additional restrictions that a+b=1 and a>=0 and b>=0, > > Any easy pointers on different spaces for us old Euclidians Matju
I am definately no expert in this area, but this guy and his ideas always fascinated me as an alternative to Euclidean geometry: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannian_manifold> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannian_geometry> Best, Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list