> http://xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/specialPlaneCurves.html
ah Yes thanks for the reminder. Paul Bourke's web site is beautiful monster it turns out. Available on DVD [tempting:-)] http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/index.html > Note, in particular, that the dictionary is ordered with historical > reference. I am willing to accept it as my own perculiar sensibility, > but math has its meaning to me largely through a view of its > historical unfolding. I think it is a sensiblity that deserves a seat > at the table. Remember the superb IBM Eames timeline poster of History of Mathematics ? I am *big* fan of timelines, sequences, historical mappings and visualizations. Believe in the benefits of easily accessible multiple views of life. Historical ordering always welcome. However I take a rather cineaste approach to history, enjoying to explore a molecular triad HMD of intertwined representations [realities]. History / Memory / Documentary which translate respectively approximately as: H - recorded cited sequence M - experienced associative sequence [personal and collective] D - editorialized selective sequence sort or the 3 dimensions of a Sierpinski cube which reveal and obscure truth in equal measure What's this got to do with Python? Well some years ago I worked on trying to implement these 3 views [History Memory Documentary] as a set of functions. First in Mathematica rendering timeline datasets as 3D models. Then later using these structures at the heart of a Zope-based collaboration server with special emphasis on sequencing visual and time-based media. I was not a nearly strong enough programmer at the time to pull it off. I fairly drowned in documentation trying to keep up with Zope which changed significantly daily then [c1999-2000]. But I had a lot of fun combining mxDateTime and SeqDict http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxDateTime.html http://home.arcor.de/wolfgang.grafen/Python/Modules/Modules.html I'd like to get back into that soon and give it a fresh go. Jason _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
