[Gridflow-dev] ping (fwd)

[Tom Schouten]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:49:56PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Tom Schouten wrote:
> 
> > > Terminology wars is about ownership in "word territory"; the goal is to
> > > make other people believe one's own definition of a word is more right
> > > than the others, even than the official/default ones. Then you can use the
> > > resulting confusion to cause existing written texts to mean something else
> > > than what they were intended to mean, because the reference has shifted to
> > > different referents. It is about using a word as a leverage for power.
> > do you read Dennett?
> 
> No, who is he?
>

a bit ot, but this is his homepage
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/~ddennett.htm

he appears to be a friend of richard dawkins.

> The above paragraph is just my personal observation, maybe tinted/tainted
> slightly by little crumbs of Critical Theory.
> 

and there's little to argument the paragraph. i was very sloppy with terms,
but still surprized it triggered a response instead of some 'translator'
kicking in. :)


> It doesn't matter how much complexity you introduce as long as it solves a
> problem for which there is no better solution.
>

indeed.
 
> How do _you_ solve the problem of parametrizing object classes using
> objects instead of atoms? AFAIK, you don't.
>

i have no clue about what you are talking here.
 
> 
> 
> 
> Here are a few examples of usage of #remap_image.
> 
> 
> moving ( 40px up, 30 px left ):
> 
>  |           /\ /\
> [#remap_image] X [# - ( 40 30 )]
>  |           \/ \/
> 
> rotating (60 degrees):
> 
>  |           /\ /\
> [#remap_image] X [#rotate 6000]
>  |           \/ \/
> 
> zooming (by 280/256):
> 
>  |           /\ /\
> [#remap_image] X [# *>>8 280]
>  |           \/ \/
>

i fear i lost you again..

all these things seem like simple operations to me,
not necessitating this sideways communication..