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Fantastic article and well written, too. For those of you, like me, who don't know French and miss the pun of the title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baise-moi
by Jun8 8y ago
Fantastic article and well written, too. For those of you, like me, who don't know French and miss the pun of the title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baise-moi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baise-moi.
It also mentions the concept of the osculating circle, probably the only risque mathematical term (anyone know of any other ones?), which led me of the following poem (from this post https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezvq9n/the-kissing-circles-the-time-nature-published-a-poem-as-a-scientific-paper https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezvq9n/the-kissin...) that summarizes Descartes's Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27_theorem):
"For pairs of lips to kiss maybe
Involves no trigonometry.
This not so when four circles kiss
Each one the other three.
To bring this off the four must be
As three in one or one in three.
If one in three, beyond a doubt
Each gets three kisses from without.
If three in one, then is that one
Thrice kissed internally. "
EDIT: Turns out there are many other such math terms, e.g. see https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1102872/unusual-mathematical-terms https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1102872/unusual-mat...:
- sn41 8y ago> probably the only risque mathematical term Not a term, but there's the "Hairy Ball Theorem": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
- kccqzy 8y agoOsculating polynomial is another one. It's basically a generalization of Taylor polynomials and Lagrange polynomials.
- nkg 8y agoI have been using bezier curves for years in Illustrator or Inkscape without any knowledge of how it worked under the hood. I guess that is how you know what a great UI is. Now, who has an article about 3D wireframes?