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.
"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. "
I 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.
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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.
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-kissin...) that summarizes Descartes's Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27_theorem):
EDIT: Turns out there are many other such math terms, e.g. see https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1102872/unusual-mat...:Not a term, but there's the "Hairy Ball Theorem":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
I 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?
Osculating polynomial is another one. It's basically a generalization of Taylor polynomials and Lagrange polynomials.