[Kde-games-devel] Kubrick gets a background picture

[Matthew Woehlke]

Ian Wadham wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 05:48:17 am Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Heh, that trig bugs me :-).
>>
> Toughski titski ... :-)
> [snip]
> Being a mathematician by training, though 50 years out of practice,
> I tend to favour the generality of staying in one set of co-ordinates
> that handles everything ... i.e. 3D, and there is only one rectangle to
> draw in "2D".  So thanks, Matthew, for the offer of a patch, but not
> this time around if it is all the same to you.  Thanks, too, for all the
> insights you have given me into how OpenGL works.

Ok, I guess using 3D to do something that's really 2D bothers me about 
the way "gratuitously switching coordinate systems" bothers you :-). So, 
I won't delete my patch, but I won't try to make you accept it either.

(FWIW my own formal education is as much math as computer science. I 
also love math, just not enough to take it up as a career in a way that 
would result in less hacking ;-).)

-- 
Matthew
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with 
your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will 
always long to return. -- Leonardo da Vinci