From f66173f7a003551c79aaee118391a967d8451858 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: C R Onjob Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 01:00:03 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Automatic commit of irc logs You recoil from the crude; you tend naturally toward the exquisite. --- irc/#ipdf.log | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+) diff --git a/irc/#ipdf.log b/irc/#ipdf.log index 562b097..f2d49a0 100644 --- a/irc/#ipdf.log +++ b/irc/#ipdf.log @@ -1139,3 +1139,74 @@ 22:11 <@matches> I will just have to face disappointment O'clock tomorrow 22:22 < sulix> I still have to put more work in before I feel I even deserve disappointment, I think... :/ 22:23 < sulix> I made the mistake of deleting the irrelevant bits from my lit review, and now there's almost nothing left! +--- Day changed Mon May 19 2014 +08:03 < sulix> At the risk of causing terror: is your final Lit review due on Friday too? +08:05 * sulix has discovered that his is, and is currently trying to work out how to type in the foetal position. +09:59 <@matches> Yeah it's due on Friday +09:59 <@matches> Today is not off to a good start +10:00 <@matches> I missed an 8am lab but I can't blame the 2 buses I missed because I actually forgot about it +10:00 <@matches> Then I missed the 2 buses +10:00 < sulix> Ouch. +10:00 <@matches> I think missing my tutorial this afternoon is a bad idea but on the other hand... lit review +10:02 < sulix> I'm frantically writing irrelevant stuff now. +10:03 < sulix> I'm a little concerned about my entire section on "Document Formats" basically only referencing some specs and "Pixels or Perish". +10:03 <@matches> That's what I do +10:03 < sulix> Whereas I have like 20 references for graphics papers that are almost totally irrelevant. +10:04 <@matches> I have a reference for shading on a vector display +10:04 <@matches> That's pretty irrelevant +10:04 < sulix> I've started referencing data structures that are "kinda similar I guess" to the Quadtree, as well. :/ +10:05 <@matches> I ham fisted it in with the paper about embedding 3d figures in documents +10:05 <@matches> Like "in the 70s even though people had algorithms for things they still drew the diagrams by hand!" +10:05 < sulix> Peasants! +10:06 <@matches> My section on number representations is pretty shite +10:06 <@matches> I still haven't finished floats +10:06 < sulix> Mine is currently under construction, as it were. +10:06 <@matches> And the whole point is supposed to be that floats are not good enough +10:07 < sulix> I've got a terrible thing about floats, but have started talking about arb. precision floats now. +10:07 <@matches> All I know about the alternatives are that they are basically still floats +10:07 <@matches> But with more bits... +10:07 < sulix> I also have some maths I made up that is maybe wrong. +10:07 <@matches> Will you be here in time for doom O'clock? +10:08 <@matches> *cough* I meant eleven +10:08 < sulix> We can but hope. +10:08 < sulix> I'm sort-of counting on the meeting not happening until 11:20 or so. :/ +10:09 <@matches> I'll show him Rate My Lit Review +10:09 <@matches> That'll distract attention from the lack of Lit Review +10:09 <@matches> I'm also assuming no one is ever going to read these IRC logs +10:09 < sulix> We can but hope. +10:10 < sulix> I'm feeling dirty because I've just referenced the java standard library. +10:10 < sulix> Out damnéd +10:10 < sulix> java.math.BigDecimal. +10:15 <@matches> I was going to reference that at some point +10:16 <@matches> I feel like you've made more progress than I have been +10:17 <@matches> Possibly the decision to sleep last night was a poor one +10:26 < sulix> Having done the opposite: it wasn't. +10:30 <@matches> Argh I just got the icedove reminder for the meeting +10:32 <@matches> So I washed out my Guild (TM) Keep Cup (TM) this morning and now my tea tastes like detergent +16:37 <@matches> We didn't get the random asking about photoshop in here +16:37 <@matches> I feel left out +22:49 <@matches> sjy in #ucc mentioned Knuth's Metafontbook in regards to rendering fonts at infinite precision +22:49 <@matches> Yet another thing to get around to reading :S +22:49 <@matches> Before Friday :S +22:50 <@matches> Wednesday I guess if we meet Tim's deadline for a draft :P +23:08 <@matches> I guess I was meaning to reference the TeX book at *some* point +23:08 <@matches> So many things +23:08 <@matches> Oh dear it's 11pm already +23:08 <@matches> :-( +23:09 <@matches> Ok, so +23:09 <@matches> Metafont seems to basically be symbolic ways to define fonts +23:10 <@matches> Also Beziers +23:10 <@matches> All the beziers +23:10 <@matches> Good +23:11 <@matches> I was on the right track when I said Beziers were really important +23:11 <@matches> Knuth is so detailed +23:12 <@matches> Now I feel guilty about my cartesian line +23:12 <@matches> That I didn't reference Rene Descartes La Geometrie 1637 +23:12 <@matches> I'm a monster +23:15 <@matches> I think instead of thinking of things as either interpreted or dom-y like Hayes does, the best way is to think about "What is in the document (eg: DOM)" and "How it is drawn" and you can either have your format care about both things or just one but obviously the most useful formats allow for both +23:16 <@matches> Actually scratch that +23:16 <@matches> I don't know anymore +23:16 <@matches> It's too philosophical +23:16 * matches goes back to floating point nubers +23:18 <@matches> So I wonder how much of PostScript is a shameless rip off of METAFONT +23:18 <@matches> It's not like you have to give credit when you are trying to sell something -- 2.20.1