VLVL(5) Vocabulary

[Toby G Levy]

And I just assumed that since it was on an Island, if the hotel was on
any kind of elevation, all rooms would be able to view the Pacific.

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Dave Monroe
<monrovius at yahoo.com> writes:
> This occured to me as well, but so long as all the
> rooms on the four segments of the X have windows
> facing the ocean, they could conceivably all have an
> ocean view.  Helps if the hotel is situated thus ...
> 
>      ~~~~~~~                           (  
>         X       ... rather than ...  X (
>                                        (
>  
> ... of course, not everyone will have an equally good
> view, but you get what you pay for, most likely ... 
> 
> At any rate, see not only ...
> 
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DihedralAngle.html
> 
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/imagepages/A4dihedr.html
> 
> But also ...
> 
> http://www.colby.edu/chemistry/OChem/DEMOS/dihedral.html
> 
> The dihedral angle can be defined by a set of four
> atoms independent of the molecular structure. In
> particular, the four atoms do not have to be connected
> to each other. Each atom is selected by a separate
> selection statement. The dihedral angle involving four
> atoms i,j,k,l is defined as the angle between two
> planes, where the first plane is made by atoms i,j,k
> and the other plane is made by atoms j,k,l.
> 
> http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Binfs/xplor/manual/node179.html
> 
> --- Mary Krimmel <mary at krimmel.net> wrote:
> > 
> > A dihedral angle is also formed by two half-planes
> > meeting in a line. I see the Hotel as resembling a
> > very wide letter V, two thin wings with all 
> > outside rooms. It would be hard for the four wings
> > of an X to all face the Pacific.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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