vector

[jochen stremmel]

Don't mention it, Keith. But reviewing my mail I see that I should've
written: l'objet du désir. Computer graphics obviously made no sense
for Mason&Dixon and DePugh but "a quantity having direction as well as
magnitude" did.

Best regards

Jochen

2012/5/25 Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>:
> All good viewpoints. Thanks everyone.
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Computer graphics come in two forms, vector and raster.  Vector
>> graphics is line-based, connecting two points, with a start and an
>> end.  Raster graphics are an accumulation of single points, pixels.
>>
>> So, for me,  'Vector of Desire' would be the trajectory, or path Desire
>> takes.
>>
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > One could conceive 'Vector of Desire' being something like a Direction
>> > of
>> > Desire (along a 3-dimensional plane...?)
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What he probably means here in M&D is simply a 'course or direction'.
>> >> None
>> >> of that Hamiltonian stuff that crops up in AtD, as Hamilton was not
>> >> even
>> >> born yet.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Madeleine Maudlin
>> >> <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Without googling the word, I took vector to be a measurement or
>> >>> amount,
>> >>> which rendered the term desire and the whole phrase obscure to me.  A
>> >>> Measure of Desire?  Well, they're talking about measuring things,
>> >>> aren't
>> >>> they.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:40 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> DePugh, coming from Cambridge, means probably the direction to be
>> >>>> taken "to the Object we wish to examine", l'objet du desire.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> J
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 2012/5/25 Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>:
>> >>>> > Can someone, or everyone, help me understand "vector", as in "A
>> >>>> > Vector
>> >>>> > of
>> >>>> > Desire"? pg 96, M&D.
>> >>>> >
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