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Re:Bézier moi by Jun8 on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:31PM (#18645227)
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):

  "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. "
EDIT: Turns out there are many other such math terms, e.g. see https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1102872/unusual-mat...:
Re:Bézier moi by sn41 on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:38PM (#18645257)
> probably the only risque mathematical term

Not a term, but there's the "Hairy Ball Theorem":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem

Re:Bézier moi by nkg on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:33AM (#18647740)
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?

Re:Bézier moi by kccqzy on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:01AM (#18645817)
Osculating polynomial is another one. It's basically a generalization of Taylor polynomials and Lagrange polynomials.