> -----Original Message----- > From: Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 7:44 AM > To: 'Kirby Urner'; 'Scott David Daniels'; '[email protected]' > > > > CS needs better movies, visualizations/animations, is the long and short > > of > > it -- of Knuth's 256-cylinder engine's internals along with the rest of > it > > (roar!).
Obviously, OTOH (to my previous post), there would not be a PyGeo if I found a book approach fully satisfactory to what I was trying to achieve in getting to geometric concepts. Pascal's Mystic Hexagon (inscribed in a conic) is unconvincing and uninspiring when viewed as a static illustration. An animation of it is a step forward. Better yet is getting random access to it, in the form of a dynamic construction. Not convinced that the three pairs of the continuations of opposite sides of the inscribed hexagon meet on a straight line? Try me. The difficulty in this stuff is recognizing, appreciating and exploiting new possibilities in a focused manner, without getting *too* excited and generalizing *too* broadly about what those possibilities are and where they get us. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
