Re: [PD] flatspace? What the hell it is

2007-01-16 Thread Patco
Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : That is correct. Instead being installed straight into pd/extra, these are installed into pd/extra/flatspace as a step to making everything namespaceable (is that a word? ;) .hc At least it's possible to get the meaning of namespace with no difficulty:

[PD] flatspace? What the hell it is

2007-01-15 Thread Patco
Hello, anyone could tell the meaning of flatspace? Best regards, PC. ___ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire.

Re: [PD] flatspace? What the hell it is

2007-01-15 Thread Patco
Hello, Georg Holzmann a écrit : As far as I understand it now, it is an older buildsystem, made by Günther. The new one is the one with the libdir format. Ah thank you Georg, that's clear, I've got it now, here's another explanation of the birth of the flatspace format:

Re: [PD] flatspace? What the hell it is

2007-01-15 Thread Georg Holzmann
Hallo! Without any clue I guess there is a good reason why external sources have moved into another format, may I ask why? I don't know if I understand you correct - but the source of the externals did not move, only the buildsystem changed (the packaging of all the externals ...) LG

Re: [PD] flatspace? What the hell it is

2007-01-15 Thread padawan12
First account given by Abbot Abbot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland and summarised in a more easy going modern form by Rudy Rucker http://www.2secondfuse.com/archives/rudyruckerthefourthdimensi.html :) On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:46:52 +0100 Patco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, anyone

Re: [PD] flatspace? What the hell it is

2007-01-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Jan 15, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Georg Holzmann wrote: Hallo! Without any clue I guess there is a good reason why external sources have moved into another format, may I ask why? I don't know if I understand you correct - but the source of the externals did not move, only the buildsystem

Re: [PD] flatspace? What the hell it is

2007-01-15 Thread shift8
i resisted, but since we've gone there now, i'll also add that Edward Tufte is a big fan of the multi-to-uni dimensional definition of that word too :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:13 +, padawan12 wrote: First account given by Abbot Abbot

Re: [PD] flatspace? What the hell it is

2007-01-15 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
Cheers to that! It may be giving away my youth, but I read The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator when I was about 11, and it changed me forever. Edwin A. Abbot's little book is a great quick read, with some juicy commentary about Victorian Britain as well as extra-dimensional space.