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Re:An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post an... by naasking on Friday December 03, 2021 @09:45PM (#29438211)
Seems like a disingenuous take. There's a very obvious path to understanding the basics of computer graphics by introducing the basic shapes of geometry, particularly triangles for obvious reasons.
Re:An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post an... by chongli on Friday December 03, 2021 @09:56PM (#29438264)
My interpretation of "computer graphics" was based on modern 3D graphics: transformation, lighting, texture mapping, animation, etc. High school geometry will get you the basics but that's a long way from the state of the art. See the rendering equation [1] for an example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_equation

Re:An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post an... by naasking on Friday December 03, 2021 @10:19PM (#29438388)
Introduction to geometry is 2D. 3D comes much later. There's plenty of introductory material in 2D alone, even 2D computer graphics.
Re:An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post an... by chongli on Friday December 03, 2021 @10:30PM (#29438444)
Your original comment didn't say anything about introductory material. This whole discussion is about education to prepare students for university and beyond. No one is pursuing a career in computer graphics with only an introductory high school geometry background.
Re:An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post an... by naasking on Saturday December 04, 2021 @09:20AM (#29440977)
No, this whole discussion is about K-12 education, which includes the very first introductions to geometry, and if you look at the existing geometry content from 2013 [1] it's mostly about 2D geometry, shapes, angles, rotations, translations, etc. That fits squarely in with 2D computer graphics. I also did emphasize "basic geometry" and "basic computer graphics" in my first reply to you.

Finally, my first reply was disputing the claimed uselessness of geometry. It's very clear that it's far from useless these days, although some material is certainly less useful than it maybe used to be.

[1] https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/documents/mathfwgeometryjl.p...