Hi. 2020-05-17 20:13 UTC+02:00, Matt Juntunen <matt.juntu...@hotmail.com>: > Hello, > > I've created GEOMETRY-97 [1] to change commons-geometry to use the term > "centroid" to refer to the center of mass of a geometric object instead of > the term "barycenter" (inherited from commons-math). The two terms can be > used interchangeably [2] but "centroid" seems to be used far more often. (I > generally need to use "centroid" when searching for algorithms and articles > online in order to get useful results.) Does anyone have an opinion on > this? > > I know this is nit-picking since the two terms mean the same thing,
If in [Geometry] there is no notion of mass, "centroid" is more appropriate than "center of mass". > but I'd > like to make the library as intuitive as possible for first-time users. +1 Gilles > Regards, > Matt J > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/GEOMETRY/issues/GEOMETRY-97 > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroid --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
